Never Was Quotes

#1. I'm your wife. You should have come to me. When I have ever not been there to help you? He shook his head, telling me there never was a time, which made his story that much worse. I would have done anything for that man, and he knew it.

Courtney Giardina

#2. I just never was the marrying kind.

Holland Taylor

#3. I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.

Tommy Chong

#4. Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

Walter J. Phillips

#5. It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#6. Jake was right - I'm strong in a way June never was. Because I know that I want to be here. Even with the pain. Even with the ugliness.

Hannah Harrington

#7. Politeness never was one of your strong points"
"Bitch was always one of yours though

R.S. Burnett

#8. Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Archibald Hill

#9. Ben Says: Bullying is not cool ... never is & never was! Be a winner and stop bullying today!
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#10. They stopped next at a bookstore. "Oh, what a delicious smell of new books!" said Ellen, as they entered. "Mamma, if it wasn't for one thing, I should say I never was so happy in my life.

Susan Bogert Warner

#11. I sought peace in everything, but never was I happier than in a corner with a book

Umberto Eco

#12. He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was ...

Louis L'Amour

#13. Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

Tori Amos

#15. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Mark Twain

#16. Love is action. It isn't just talk, and it never was.

Audrey Hepburn

#17. There never was night that had no morn.

Dinah

#18. The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Jeremy Bentham

#19. I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?

Jeffrey R. Holland

#20. Queen, goodbye forever!
Your wings were sunbeams, and my feet are clay
I'll never be well if I don't get to bed
I never was well unless I was stretched out across the universe.

Fernando Pessoa

#21. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Chloe Sevigny

#22. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all ... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

Bruce Coville

#23. This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

Adolf Hitler

#24. I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Jane Fonda

#25. I could live without acting ... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

Jeanne Moreau

#26. I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

Jonah Hill

#27. There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

Jennifer Donnelly

#28. Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. There never was such a goose.

Charles Dickens

#30. The pressure of the environment cramps art as it cramps behaviour. One may challenge this environment, but one has to pay for it, and the price is neurotic guilt. There never was an intelligentsia without a guilt complex; it is the income tax one has to pay for wanting to make others richer.

Arthur Koestler

#31. The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

Joseph Campbell

#32. I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

Vladimir Nabokov

#33. Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!

Edwin Arnold

#34. Creating is the means to breathe life into something that never was, could have been, or someday might be.

L.M. Fields

#35. I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

Madame De Stael

#36. I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#37. Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

Margaret Cavendish

#38. The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

Walter E. Williams

#39. Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our nation would not be complete without the story of former slaves that helped develop the unique character of the West.

William Silverman

#40. Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.

Mary Slessor

#41. Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

Sophocles

#42. I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

George Harrison

#43. It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

Edwin Lefevre

#44. There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness ... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

Andrew Jackson

#45. There never was any hope," Caesar muttered.
"There was, before you destroyed it.

Meagan Spooner

#46. There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

Ron Clarke

#47. Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#48. I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Hugh Laurie

#49. The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He never was born and has never died - As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall be!

Florence Scovel Shinn

#50. Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

Plutarch

#51. There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

Penn Jillette

#52. I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.

Harry Markowitz

#53. What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.

David Eugene Smith

#54. He never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.

Victor Hugo

#55. Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Henry R. Luce

#56. Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.

Victor Hugo

#57. There is no later. There never was. Later is something that's used up with the lazy belief that there's always a tomorrow.

Karina Halle

#58. There never was a revelation without a question first.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#59. What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

John Dunning

#60. There never was a state of human society so happily constituted, that the greater part followed Christ. Those who will enlist in the cause of Christ must learn this as one of their earliest lessons, and must "put on" this "armor," (Eph_6:11,) that they may be steadfast in believing on him.

Anonymous

#61. And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

Charles Dickens

#62. Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

Flannery O'Connor

#63. People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

Michel Auder

#64. The Idumeans (Edomites) were ... made Jews ... and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia ... The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

H.G.Wells

#65. Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.

James Boswell

#66. You thinks there's this thing between us, but there never was, and there never will be. - Amy Cahill

Jeff Hirsch

#67. I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

Bobby Cannavale

#68. Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

Randolph Bedford

#69. It's like looking for a needle that no one ever lost in a haystack that never was -

Charles Fort

#70. I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#71. Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

Fernando Pessoa

#72. The future ain't what it used to be - and what's more, it never was.

Lee Hays

#73. It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Homer

#74. Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

Muhammad Ali

#75. There is a place where I never was before: here breathing is different, and more dazzling than the sun is the radiance of a star beside it.

Franz Kafka

#76. The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

Dagobert D. Runes

#77. What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

Rush Limbaugh

#78. I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.

Wladimir Klitschko

#79. Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

Rudyard Kipling

#80. Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#81. Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

Alexander Herzen

#82. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

William Shakespeare

#83. Never was I booed.

Willie Stargell

#84. I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

Ethel Waters

#85. When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge. You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.

Nicole Richie

#86. I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.

Edgar Allan Poe

#87. There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Charles Spurgeon

#88. Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.

Misty Copeland

#89. James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

Will Ferrell

#90. Never was the distinction between charity and mercy better exemplified than in her.

Charlotte Bronte

#91. I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

John Keats

#92. Knowles had always been a pain in the ass. A wannabe who never was and never would be.

Kenneth Eade

#93. I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

Deacon Jones

#94. I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.

J. D. Souther

#95. You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.

Martha Grimes

#96. A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson ... and he never was much use.
Walder Frey

George R R Martin

#97. I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.

Tibor Kalman

#98. Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

L.M. Montgomery

#99. Nevertheless, her own political philosophy could have been stated baldly (which it never was) as a belief that men should rule the world and women should rule men.

Robert A. Heinlein

#100. The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

Bill Vaughan