Never Quotes

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

There are never enough I Love You's.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.