Top 100 Never Happened Quotes
#1. There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
Michel De Montaigne
#2. He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.
Harry S. Truman
#3. I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.
Mark Twain
#4. It has never happened!" cannot be construed to mean, "It can never happen!" - as
George R. Stewart
#5. I guarantee that tomorrow there will be something that will happen, that has never happened before.
That is something to look forward too.
And the best part of tomorrow is that there is another one just a day later.
JohnA Passaro
#6. When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
#7. Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.
- Friar Tuck
Stephen R. Lawhead
#8. I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.
Hannah Kent
#9. My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
Warren Christopher
#10. 'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.
Rick Yancey
#11. My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
Alton Brown
#12. Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.
Jeffrey Kluger
#13. Sometimes I half fall asleep when I am sitting alone and fancy things that have never happened.
Charlotte Bronte
#14. Lots of things have never happened before. We're only born once.
Terry Pratchett
#15. I kicked him in the head with my rented formal shoes. My shoe went flying off, which I was pretty sure never happened to James Bond. The
Jim Butcher
#16. Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
Jared Diamond
#17. I was supposed to have a relationship with Judy, but that never happened. Actors in series didn't have the control that they have today over their jobs.
Mark Goddard
#18. I have had a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Gavin De Becker
#19. For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.
Jane Leavy
#20. What isn't remembered never happened.
Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record.
Yoshitoshi ABe
#21. When I come back, we'll pretend like this never happened. We'll head to Wyoming and get back to what we do best.' Annie had no idea what it was that they did best; the two of them together seemed below average in all categories.
Kevin Wilson
#23. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
Mark Twain
#24. I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, this never happened before.
Serena Williams
#25. In far-off lands stand the great stones
on which my thoughts rest.
It was a foreigner who wrote the strange words
on the hard board that is called my soul.
Days and nights I lie and think
about things that never happened:
my thirsty soul was once given a drink.
Edith Sodergran
#26. Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.
Mark Twain
#27. As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.
Kristin Neff
#28. I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.
Autumn De Wilde
#29. When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.
Pawan Mishra
#30. At home I'm clean. Like it never happened. Tell them you saw me. Tell them ... you saw me.
Sarah Kane
#31. Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.
Pete Sampras
#32. An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
Dale Carnegie
#33. Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.
Bjork
#34. Almost everything that I've ever worried about has never happened ..
Ian Tucker
#36. When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street ... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb
#37. Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
Barry Ritholtz
#38. And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.
Cressida Cowell
#39. When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
Winston S. Churchill
#40. If the Party could thrust its had into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture or death.
George Orwell
#41. For people my age, including me, if we don't post it, it never happened. People's
Samantha Hunt
#42. Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
Jodi Picoult
#43. I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
Fatima Siad
#44. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
#45. Artemis turned and stared at his friend with the blue eyes. Holly was staring back, and she was smiling.
"I remember," she said aloud. "You saved me."
Artemis smiled back. "It never happened," he said.
Eoin Colfer
#46. When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
Lewis Carroll
#47. then he would feel like he was finally going crazy. It never happened though. Always the tease, never the relief.
Luke Smitherd
#48. For me, when I did 'Thor,' they changed my lines at the last minute, and then I had to speak with an English accent - and it was horrifying. I was in front of a crew of 250 people on my first day - never happened to me before.
Rene Russo
#49. While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
Ruth Rendell
#50. You said I was in love. You were right. But that never happened, either.
Craig Clevenger
#51. If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#52. I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
Alan Ladd
#53. I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.
Bernard Hopkins
#54. Most happy stories are fantasies that never happened. A form of wish fulfillment. ( ... ) Telling happy stories that actually happened lends a sort of fairy-tale quality to real life. They remind the teller and the listener of the magic that can be found in the mundane if you pay close attention.
Megan McCafferty
#55. It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.
Laurence Sterne
#56. I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think ... let the character develop and grow inside me.
Casey Affleck
#57. The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
Andy Behrman
#58. I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
Douglas Coupland
#59. I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ... most of which has never happened.
Mark Twain
#60. It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.
Collin C. Peterson
#61. Some stories are true that never happened.
Elie Wiesel
#62. Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
Siri Hustvedt
#63. Thank you for coming. Enjoy the things that never happened. Secure your own mask again after you read these stories, but do not forget to help others.
Neil Gaiman
#64. The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.
Leo Tolstoy
#65. Be here now. Be someplace else later. - DAVID BADER I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - MARK TWAIN
Bob Litwin
#66. To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.
Muhammad Yunus
#67. If I close my eyes, plug my ears, and hold my tongue, all of this will cease to exist. I can pretend it never happened. No one will blame me if I choose to shove these memories into the back of my mind.
Leigh Hershkovich
#68. What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.
Kendrick Lamar
#69. If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened.
Gordon Korman
#70. I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me."
"It was your humility, wasn't it?
Derek Landy
#71. And anyway, it never happened." I bit my lip to keep from laughing. "Nope, it didn't," he said. "Not in a house." "Not with a mouse." "Not in a box.
Melanie Harlow
#72. Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#73. The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.
L.M. Montgomery
#74. The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.
Virginia Postrel
#75. Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.
Seth Klarman
#76. I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened.
Piper Faust
#77. We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.
Thomm Quackenbush
#78. They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay
Dalton Trumbo
#79. It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.
Mary Harron
#80. According to A Course in Miracles, this separation from God first happened millions of years ago. But the important revelation, the crux of the Course, is that in reality it never happened at all.
Marianne Williamson
#81. Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
Oscar Wilde
#82. Make a decision, and don't turn back."
"What if it's wrong?"
"I don't know." He winks at me over his shoulder. "It's never happened.
Amanda Bouchet
#83. When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey
#84. Know who I am? ... 'Good Bye Mister' is my name ... 'Wind and Dust' is my name ... 'Never Happened' is my name ...
William S. Burroughs
#85. I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
Douglas Coupland
#86. It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has always been done.
Jason M. Steffens
#87. Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#88. Life seemed more transient now, with people commonly relocating and changing jobs during their lifetime - things that had almost never happened a century ago.
Brandon Sanderson
#89. Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.
Alice Englert
#90. She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.
Crystal Woods
#91. Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
George R R Martin
#92. It took a long time for me to get better, but I did. I got better. But suddenly it's like the last four years never happened, and I'm feeling all the same terrible feelings about myself that I did back then.
Jenny Han
#93. Forgetting doesn't mean it never happened; it means not dealing with the consequences.
Laura Thalassa
#94. Things never happened like I imagined them.
John Green
#95. ...we're a mystery which will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before...
E. E. Cummings
#96. It never happened
but it seemed like
there were times when rot
stopped
waited like a streetcar
at a signal.
Charles Bukowski
#98. The sixties?All right if you happened to have money. All right if you happened to know the right people. All right if you happened to live in London. But if you were poor, working class and lived anywhere else, then forget it. The sixties never happened.
C.J. Stone
#99. I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little. My parents thought I would change my mind. My boyfriends always think I'm going to change my mind, but it never happened. I fall in love with my businesses.
Carmen Busquets
#100. Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.
Grenville Kleiser
