N Quotes
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“Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.”
“Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.”
“Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.”
“Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.”
“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.”
“Never, ever, work for bad people”
“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”
Source: 1984
“Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.”
Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon
“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”
“Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.”
Source: Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss
“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.”
“Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.”
“Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.”
“Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you.
You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness.
Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.”
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.”
“Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.”
Source: The Maritime History of Massachusetts
“Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.”
Source: Roxana; Or, The Fortunate Mistress: And The Life and Adventures of Mother Ross
“Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.”
Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776
“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”
“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
“Never, never be afraid to do what's right.”
“Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.”
“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”
“Never, never have I been loved as I love others!”
“Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.”
“Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“Never, never mind your bleeding heart.”
“Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.”
Source: Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality
“Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.”
“Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction.”
“Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.”
“Never, never try to scope the market.”
“Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?”
“Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.”
Source: The Works of Charles Dickens
“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“Never, never, never give up.”
“Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.”
“Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.”
“Never, never, never postpone following a prompting.”
“Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.”
“Never, never, never, hire people with an attitude. You will regret it.”
“Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.”
“Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.”
“Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.”
“Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.”
“Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.”
“Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.”
Source: After all
“Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.”
Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay