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“You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.”
“You never see a smiling runner.”
Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“You never see an old man eating a Twix”
“You never see and perceive the world around you. You perceive only the form of what your consciousness allows you to perceive.”
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”
“You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice.”
“You never see Beyonce stumbling out of a club drunk and on drugs without underwear on - nor do you see Justin Timberlake pashing 5 chicks in a club. You never hear them slagging anyone in the media...They are composed and somewhat mysterious and that fascinates me!”
“You never see girls running after engineers.”
“You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.”
“You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.”
Source: Tartuffe and Other Plays
“You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.”
“You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.”
“You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.”
“You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.”
“You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.”
Source: Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues
“You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.”
“You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.”
“You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.”
“You never step backwards when you’re sure of where you’re going.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.”
“You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
“You never stop being yourself on the inside, whatever age people think you are by looking at you from the outside.”
Source: Winter
“You never stop learning. There is so much to see and do, so much to live for, that you can't possibly learn it all in a single lifetime. - Kailin Gow”
“You never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor.”
“You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.”
“You never stop learning. You learn something new every day.”
“You never stop looking like art to me”
Source: 100 Boyfriends
“You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.”
“You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.”
“You never stopped being family to me! And I never stopped loving you. I simply buried it deeper and deeper so no one was aware.”
Source: Of Wulf and Wynd, Part 2: The Bracelets of Ælfwynn
“You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.”
“You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.”
Source: Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
“You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.”
“You never talk about your past with anyone. Talking just releases memories into the air, and they aren't really yours anymore, or they become changed or other people capture them and hold them prisoner. You want to keep them. The bad ones might infect someone.”
Source: Dead Astronauts
“You never think it's going to happen to you, you know? You fret like mad, but some corner of you always believes it will be someone's else husband or father or brother. But no one is immune”
“You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly each time, but deep down, you don't really believe it would ever happen, because it's something that happens to someone else, not to you.”
Source: Ghostgirl
“You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.”
“You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.”
“You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.”
“You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“You never told me how everyone liked the sirupskake."
"It was splendid!" she said, her smile returning. "Your fa- my husband asked that you bake another one soon for me to bring him."
Freya was always tripping over her words like that. Anna did the same thing herself. She chalked it up to wanting to say so much in a short amount of time. She was like a pot of melting chocolate: the words bubbled over.
"Did he like the candied oranges I placed on top?"
"Yes! He said he'd never seen it done that way before."
Anna shrugged. "I love to put my own spin on recipes. I like to be unique, if you haven't noticed."
"I have." Freya smiled. "I think my husband would enjoy meeting you. You and I have a similar joyful spirit, while he"- she sighed- "carries the weight of the world on his shoulders, I'm afraid. Much like my daughter."
Freya talked about her daughter a lot but unfortunately never brought her along for visits. From what Anna knew, the girl seemed whip smart and serious. Anna wished she could meet her so she could shake her up a bit. Everyone needed to let their hair down sometimes. Plus it would be nice to have a friend close to her own age.”
Source: Conceal, Don't Feel
“You never told me you love me." He said bitterly.
Alynna looked down. If only Cullan knew, she is saying those words every time she lays her eyes on him, when she thinks of him, when she watches him on his sleep...
And right this moment.
I love you so much, Cullan, it hurts.”
Source: Marrying A Wannabe Nun
“You never took a chance, so the world never gave you a chance.”
“You never toot your own horn.”
“you never tried
to change me,
and that
changed me,
forever”
Source: sex and oatmeal
“You never truly know someone until you've stood in their shoes and walked around in them.”
“You never truly lose what you are not afraid of giving away.”
“You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.”