Could Never Quotes

#1. If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz - Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor - could never become owners of cleaning shops in malls across from railroad stations.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Very slowly, he turned a full circle, taking in the nothingness of it all. It seemed his lungs could never be large enough to breathe in this much air, his eyes could never see this much space, nor could he near the full extent of the rolling, roaring ocean. For the briefest moment, he had no edges.

M.L. Stedman

#4. Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#6. I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Kip Winger

#7. 'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.

Kyle MacLachlan

#8. The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never conceive or direct.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. I could never seem to make the people I love understand what I need. I don't know why.

Nora Roberts

#10. When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself.

Colin Dickey

#11. Loving the unattainable was safe. That love could never be tested by day-to-day reality.

Carolyn Haines

#12. Secrets were always covered up and, once revealed, could never again find the darkness.

Kerrigan Byrne

#13. I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. He'd left soul prints on me. I could never say no to Kick . . . I could never deny the pull his heart had

Nina Levine

#15. That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

Halldor Laxness

#16. I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

Isabel Allende

#17. I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one ... I would hope.

Joanna Lumley

#18. I love movies and all, but I could never imagine standing around saying lines and playing make believe all day. It's too fucking ridiculous. Also, even children and animals can technically be actors. It's not a job for a man.

A.D. Aliwat

#19. When I look into your eyes I still get weak
And when Im this close to you I just cant speak
And its hard to keep my hands to myself
When I know I could never love anybody else

Gary Allan

#20. The scar on her forearm meant she could never be loyal to her family. Her name meant she could never be loyal to the Corbeaus. The only one left to be loyal to was him.

Anna-Marie McLemore

#21. For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker.

Metta World Peace

#22. My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

Ken Spillman

#23. I'll dream up a world where you never existed. A world you could never live in. I'll live there without you.

Coco J. Ginger

#24. I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.

Michelle Moran

#25. Now's the time for sweet good-bye To what could never be, To promises we ne'er could keep, To a magic you and me. If we should try to prove our love, Our love would be in danger. Let's put our love beyond all harm. Good-bye - sweet, gentle stranger.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#26. Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Mickey Spillane

#27. Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

Tori Spelling

#28. I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

George Eliot

#29. I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.

Alex Clare

#30. The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.

R. Joseph Hoffmann

#31. There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

Jane Austen

#32. It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Deb Caletti

#33. It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again.

John Fowles

#34. INXS' touring days could never last forever. We wanted it to end on a high. And it has.

Jon Farriss

#35. So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

George Carlin

#36. Would you love people the same if they could never die?

Eric Greitens

#37. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

#38. I could never live like this," I whispered to Luka.
"No," he agreed. "I've seen you grovel. It's not very convincing.

Jessica Day George

#39. So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.

Robert Bridges

#40. I could never rule out my own inability to focus on things that didn't interest me.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#41. I thought I would be at United for a couple of years, maybe three or four, and then go abroad somewhere. But I just fell in love with Manchester United. I fell in love with winning, fell in love with the history of the club and being part of it was something I could never have imagined.

Rio Ferdinand

#42. My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down problems, and don't come up with answers, but [find] a pathway that becomes clearer.

Ali Banisadr

#43. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Emma Watson

#44. I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

Richard C. Armitage

#45. Before me begging did she stand, Pouring out sorrows like a sea; Grief after grief: - on English Land Such woes I knew could never be; And yet a boon I gave her; for the Creature Was beautiful to see; a Weed of glorious feature!

William Wordsworth

#46. Alone, I was strident and articulate in a way I could never be when I faced him. His presence made me shrink, and though it irritated me, I also looked forward to that sensation of being dwarfed, couldn't wait to sit beside him in his office again.

Siri Hustvedt

#47. It was music of a kind, at the same time soothing and invigorating, such a human place and time, when no one texted at the table or had an Internet to surf while they ate or carried a cell phone the ring of which could never be ignored.

Dean Koontz

#48. I know that while I care for him deeply, he could never break my heart. For my heart rests in no one's hands but my own now.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#49. If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

Valerie Tripp

#50. I could never be homophobic in any kind of way, dude. I'm such a free bird.

CeeLo Green

#51. Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

Alison Krauss

#52. One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

James Joyce

#53. Weekends smoosh together, like one big meshed day of non-schooling. It should be called something like Sunturday. [...] I'm always thinking Saturday is Sunday and Sunday is Saturday so if it's Sunturday, I could never be wrong.
--Sofia

Rose Cooper

#54. Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

David Benatar

#55. There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.

Dwight L. Moody

#56. I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other.

Shvaugn Craig

#57. It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool.

Bonnie Dee

#58. A consultant solves other peoples problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Charles Handy

#59. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food.

Michelle Obama

#60. For God alone is our salvation; to know him is salvation. He is in us all the time, else we could never move to seek him.

George MacDonald

#61. I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

Francesca Lia Block

#62. Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.

Michael Dumontier

#63. Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.

Chris Galford

#64. The woman was beautiful in timeless, regal way- like a statue you might admire but could never love.

Rick Riordan

#65. It's amazing to me; when your mind is fixed on one thing, you forget everything. You forget to eat and drink and care. The only thing I could never forget was him.

Mercy Cortez

#66. Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

Vera Wang

#67. I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

Dave Barry

#68. It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it.

Tennessee Williams

#69. I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives ... But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

W.C. Fields

#70. All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.

Anthony Liccione

#71. He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as if he didn't have a care in the world. You had to be careful with someone like that. You could never know what he was thinking.

Jim Thompson

#72. I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#73. I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life.

Ishmael Beah

#74. I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.

Tavi Gevinson

#75. Me she was watching for: me. And the heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours.

Donna Tartt

#76. When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

Harrison Birtwistle

#77. He grasped at a prescient feeling, akin to the dialectic of dreams, that this reunion could never come to pass, yet somehow
it most definitely would.

Kenzaburo Oe

#78. I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

Ulysses S. Grant

#79. I was falling for the man who had turned me. He could never know.

Heather Heffner

#80. Are you fangalicious? -Jess, a random blogger
I could never be as fangalicious as you'd want me to be.-Fang

James Patterson

#81. I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

Mickey Mantle

#82. From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

Elizabeth George Speare

#83. The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.

Emma Watson

#84. As you know, several times, McCain talked about serving his country in Vietnam, which is a nice change after 16 years and two presidents who could never quite explain how they got out of serving their country in Vietnam.

Jay Leno

#85. The whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.

Ellen Wittlinger

#86. Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. But only today's. Magic could never die while the sun had the power to rise again and man had the wish to seek.

Hugh Lofting

#87. The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.

Don DeLillo

#88. One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

Elizabeth Goudge

#89. Sergio didn't want to get involved, but he could never resist a dame in distress, regardless of her occupation. He walked up to the man and said, "Take a hike, buddy. The lady doesn't want to go with you." The

Jack A. Tittle

#90. Men lived and died all the time by the peculiarities of their soul, which they could never expect one another to understand.

Charles Finch

#91. But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.

Lucretius

#92. You hate me don't you? You must hate me. I can't help it. I'm broken."
Trent squeezes me close to him. "I don't hate you. I could never hate you. Give me your heart, Kacey. I'll take everything that comes with it." I start to cry. Uncotrollably, for the first time in four year.

K.A. Tucker

#93. The way she'd whispered this told him she was thinking about some of her less favorite attributes and how she could never see herself viewing them as assets. Women were so fucking hard on themselves. Bailey, you are who you are, like no other. Embrace it.

Riley Murphy

#94. Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

David Bressoud

#95. Loss.
Thats what it was, a hole I could never fill. It would be bottomless.

Judy Blundell

#96. I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

Laurieann Gibson

#97. I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

Monica Seles

#98. I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

Kandyse McClure

#99. A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?

Peter Saul

#100. About to make it where you can't walk right. Fuck, I want you so bad." "I didn't plan on walking right tomorrow anyway. I thought hockey would work my thighs." His cock throbbed at the mention of her thighs. "As much as I love my sport, it could never work you the way I'm about to.

Toni Aleo