Top 100 Never More Quotes
#1. Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
Dirk Benedict
#2. Look at the most religious areas of the world at present - the Middle East and the United States. These are sick societies, and they're going to get sicker. People are never more dangerous than when they have nothing left to believe in except God.
J.G. Ballard
#3. When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
Don DeLillo
#4. I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.
Elizabeth Taylor
#5. All I meet I find assists me In my path to heavenly joy: Where, though trials now attend me, Trials never more annoy. "Blest there with a weight of glory, Still the path I'll ne'er forget, But, exulting, cry, it led me To my blessed Saviour's seat.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#6. We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.
David Steindl-Rast
#7. If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.
Emmet Fox
#8. Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain
For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#9. American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#10. A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.
Thomm Quackenbush
#11. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
#12. A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.
Harriet Prescott Spofford
#13. The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.
Lewis Sperry Chafer
#14. Peace is never more than one thought away.
Ben Jonson
#15. I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.
Mason Cooley
#16. Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'
Sheldon Richman
#17. You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.
Suzanne Farrell
#18. Though I said art sure no craven vastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore, tell me why thy lordly name is on the nigts plutonium shore, quoth the raven never more
Edgar Allan Poe
#19. You are never more honest than when you are sad.
Angel Scott
#20. We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.
Germaine Greer
#21. People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins
#22. In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.
Jack Welch
#23. If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.
Julian Fellowes
#24. We are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#25. You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.
Eckhart Tolle
#26. I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee
#27. We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.
Charles E. Schaefer
#28. Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.
Will Self
#29. Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
Cleopatra
#30. That I am ready to throw all of my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasure of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.
David Hume
#31. There's an old Ritadarion saying. You're never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#32. You are never more like Christ than when you love, pray for & serve your family.
Jim Burns
#33. The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.
Annie Besant
#34. There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
C.S. Lewis
#35. OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.
Graham Freudenberg
#36. Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing
Rest was never more than
abstract since it is empty
reality we cannot escape
Susan Howe
#37. Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.
J.I. Packer
#38. Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
#39. The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
Anthony Daniels
#40. Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#41. Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.
Cassandra Clare
#43. He is never more beautiful to me than when he is livid.
Kiersten White
#44. Calm, Corte. Whatever happens you have to stay calm. When you look into your opponent's face, when you talk to him, it should be like you're discussing cornflakes. Never more emotional than that. . . . Emotion's deadly. What
Jeffery Deaver
#45. The time came in its season, and that was very soon, when I almost wondered that nothing troubled his repose, as I looked at him. But he slept - let me think of him so again - as I had often seen him sleep at school; and thus, in this silent hour, I left him. - Never more, oh God
Charles Dickens
#46. Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
Holly Black
#47. I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein
#48. That evil wasn't glamorous, but just the result of ordinary half-assed badness, high school badness, given enough room, however that might happen, to become its bigger self. Bigger, with more horrible results, but never more than the cumulative weight of ordinary human baseness.
William Gibson
#49. Football is important, but it is never more important than life.
Nemanja Vidic
#50. The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.
George Lopez
#51. A man is never more himself than when he is alone ... That is when the mask comes off. Shut the door, and the persona drops away. Alone, you reveal your soul.
J. Kenner
#52. Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost.
Tim O'Brien
#53. By universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
James Clavell
#54. This was London, after all. I had read somewhere that wherever you stand in the entire city, you're never more than twenty yards from a rat. There were 50 million of them. That was like seven rats per human.
Amanda Gefter
#55. as they are never more at home with their own hearts while so occupied. - Nathaniel
Lea Wait
#56. A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.
Ernst Mach
#57. At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!
Walter Smith
#58. Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Denis Diderot
#59. Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
Charles Caleb Colton
#60. A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
William Booth
#61. Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl.
Dorothy Draper
#62. Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.
Orson Scott Card
#63. Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.
Amartya Sen
#64. We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.
Michael Pollan
#65. The happy place
Imparts to thee no happiness, no joy
Rather inflames thy torment, representing
Lost bliss, to thee no more communicable;
So never more in Hell than when in Heaven.
John Milton
#66. The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#67. I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.
Paul Smith
#68. Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van Der Post
#70. Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.
Samuel I. Prime
#71. A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#73. He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.
J.M. Barrie
#74. Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.
Mort Sahl
#75. The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
Hannah Cowley
#76. But the silence in her husband's ear was never more to be broken.
George Eliot
#77. I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.
Paul Auster
#78. He was never more sinister than when he was most polite ...
J.M. Barrie
#79. The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.
Robin Hobb
#80. It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
Margaret Mitchell
#81. Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.
Matt Chandler
#82. I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth and grace - for never to any else shall I seem to possess these charms.
Charlotte Bronte
#83. Death is never more than an instant nor less than an eternity away.
Marty Rubin
#84. Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
Franz Werfel
#85. I am never more sure of myself about a topic than when I have absolutely no experience with it.
Shonda Rhimes
#86. That boy skates close to the edge, he always has. He's utterly fearless and that's how he's made his reputation. But the rabbit is never more than two jumps ahead of the coyote . .
Robert A. Heinlein
#87. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton
#88. We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.
Andrea Jung
#89. I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson
#90. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
C.S. Lewis
#92. You're never more like Jesus than when you're giving.
Johnny Hunt
#93. The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.
Arthur Balfour
#94. I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.
Roma Downey
#95. What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#96. When you see life as an adventure, your hopes and dreams are never more than a day away!
Mark Batterson
#97. You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.
Bryant McGill
#98. Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
Ally Carter
#99. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain
#100. I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
Ralph Ellison
