I Quotes
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“I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.”
“I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.”
“I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.”
“I never believed that one big bill is the way to go.”
“I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.”
“I never belonged anywhere until I met you.”
Source: Enclave
“I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.”
“I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
“I never blamed my mom for the way things were. She was a victim of fate and cruel circumstance, like everyone else. Her generation had it the hardest. She’d been born into a world of plenty, then had to watch it all slowly vanish. More than anything, I remember feeling sorry for her.”
Source: Ready Player One
“I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of a particular group, scene or tribe. I was friends with everybody. My best friend in high school was prom queen, yet I was voted the biggest nonconformist of my senior class.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.”
“I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.”
“I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.”
“I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.”
“I never bought into what they meant by a real boy, anyway.”
Source: True Letters from a Fictional Life
“I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.”
“I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.”
“I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.”
“I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret.”
“I never break my journey at Deoli but i pass through as often as I can”
Source: Delhi is Not Far: The Best of Ruskin Bond
“I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.”
“I never broke up with my girlfriends, they broke up with me.”
“I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I''m just a guy playin' some blues.”
“I never burned any bridges but they all collapsed from the weight of my sadness.”
“I never buy a designer handbag unless it’s 50 percent off. That’s my rule. Well, more of a guideline really”
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic
“I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.”
“I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money.”
“I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.”
“I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.”
“I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.”
Source: Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
“I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule.”
“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”
“I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.”
“I never called you foolish," Bren says softly. "Rae." His fingers move uncertainly on his thigh, twitching toward me, then back to curl into a fist on his leg. It's the first uncertain movement I can remember him making.”
Source: The Theft of Sunlight
“I never came across a neighbourhood so utterly destitute of dead Emilies.”
“I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“I never came into life with any favours or privileges.”
“I never came into the church as a person who was being taught. I came in on my knees. That is the only way in. When people start praying they need truths; that’s all. You don’t come into the Church by ideas and concepts, and you cannot leave by mere disagreement. It has to be a loss of faith, a loss of participation. You can tell when people leave the Church: they have quit praying.
Actively relating to the Church's prayer and sacraments is not done through ideas. Any Catholic today who has an intellectual disagreement with the Church has an illusion. You cannot have an intellectual disagreement with the Church: that's meaningless. The Church is not an intellectual institution. It is a superhuman institution.”
Source: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion
“I never came with a conscious plan to replace anyone else. Stallone does feel that way. He is a real tough guy in real life, and he gets to act that out. If you meet him and work with him, he is what he is. He is a guy that works out every day.”
“I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.”
Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats
“I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“I never can imagine that a woman can do anything wrong, if they do then man made her to do it.”
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations
“I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.”
“I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.”
“I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.”
Source: Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries
“I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.”
“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.”
Source: The Magic Mountain