Top 100 They Never Quotes
#2. These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.
Marilynne Robinson
#3. Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
#4. Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.
Mike Rogers
#5. The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9.95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV.
David Edelstein
#6. What the teachers understand, students never understand and in the paper what we want them to understand they never understand so, apparently, students and teachers are like withstanding married couples with misunderstanding.
Himmilicious
#7. The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves.
Sarah Gavron
#8. Words are the best bargain. You get them for free and they never run out.
Marty Rubin
#9. The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. What about the Watchers?" "They've chosen to stay with me. They never had the prejudices against Daughters of Men anyway, which was their problem to begin with. I'm afraid your people might have their hands full with them.
Susan Ee
#11. Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.
Paulette Goddard
#12. Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
Veronica Roth
#14. The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
William H. Seward
#15. They never stop to think: I'm here. I am the result of everything that happened and will happen, but I'm here.
Paulo Coelho
#16. The Navahos could forgive the Rope Thrower for fighting them as a soldier, for making prisoners of them, even for destroying their food supplies, but the one act they never forgave him for was cutting down their beloved peach trees.
Dee Brown
#17. A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.
Bob Dylan
#18. When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
Francis Ford Coppola
#19. I Stopped Counseling People When I Realized How Much They Never Appreciated It. And If They Did Appreciate It, I Never Knew About It.
Chris Mentillo
#20. Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
James Levine
#21. Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
Penelope Spheeris
#22. Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?
Christopher Paolini
#23. That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.
Will Rogers
#24. Are they supposed to cry so much and giggle every second when they're not crying? They never quit finding something so funny that I thought it'd break my eardrums a few times.
Mary Connealy
#25. I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch.
Joan Rivers
#26. The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
Robert Barry
#27. I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
Olesya Rulin
#28. Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some life to the natural estate of man. Therefore Christ quickens them not.
Richard Sibbes
#29. Those who are kind they never mind; those who mind are rarely kind.
Debasish Mridha
#30. The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches.
Dan Gable
#31. Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley
#32. In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the things they hadn't been able do while they'd been in the armed forces. The second did their best to pretend they never got out.
Ilona Andrews
#33. But they're too shy to speak when my mother-in-law doesn't; sometimes they open their mouths to begin, but they never get as far as the first sentence. You must get used to an ocean of silence, and just swim about in it as well as you can.
Edith Wharton
#34. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
#35. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore. So I dance.
Melina Marchetta
#36. I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
Mahathir Mohamad
#37. Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.
Bob McNair
#38. Beginnings are pitiless things; they are full of promise and hope that they never have to realise.
Dianne Touchell
#39. I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!
Charlemagne Palestine
#40. Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.
Elton John
#41. I don't think they get paid very much, because they never stay very long. But they should get a million dollars. What they do is really hard, and I don't think most folks get that. It
Sharon M. Draper
#42. Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.
Anna Paskevska
#43. The universe is full of wonderful things, amazing opportunities. And you have to grab them with both hands and hope they never and.
Gareth Roberts
#44. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
Werner Herzog
#46. If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.
Susan Vreeland
#47. I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
Louie Schwartzberg
#48. Most people dream of being rich, but are terrified of losing money. So they never get to heaven. Rich
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#49. In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
Nellie McKay
#50. Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.
Jim George
#51. They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.
Charlotte Church
#52. In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.
Nico Muhly
#53. When you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of leaving, even if they never do.
Sarah Addison Allen
#54. They said that war will be the solution to end the conflict and problems, but they never said what will be the solution for the problems and conflicts created by the war itself.
Shrey Srivastava
#55. At the end of the day, it's still up to you, and that's the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.
Markus Zusak
#56. We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
W. Averell Harriman
#57. The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton
#58. Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought were impossible and all the things that everyone, throughout history, have thought were impossible are not really impossible at all ... they never were impossible.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#59. It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know.
Richard Rodriguez
#60. I would love to do a big studio movie, just because they're going to put the money into distributing it. A lot of times you do these little movies, you love them and they never get seen by anyone.
Gina Gershon
#61. Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own
one of the heart, the other of the mind.
Jean De La Bruyere
#62. I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.
Beatrice Sparks
#63. Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse.
Dorothy Dunnett
#64. If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.
Octavius Winslow
#65. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are." Dany
George R R Martin
#66. They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
Vera Wang
#67. They say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#68. Lark did not know how her parents would behave in public. They never came to anything, even teacher conferences. They had basically skipped Lark's life. She didn't mind. She had made her own.
Caroline B. Cooney
#69. Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
Isobelle Carmody
#70. I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.
Seth Rogen
#71. Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
Whitney Otto
#72. Animals and children tell the truth they never lie,
Which one is more human,
There's a thought now you decide
Savage Garden
#73. We all want someone to notice, but as soon as they do, we wish they never did.
Unknown
#74. If you're not a flaming Filipino dancing queen, they never, ever expect the Asian guy to be asking about gay sex. They always figure you want to talk about math. Or the violin.
David Levithan
#75. Really? Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!" He hesitated, and then shrugged. "And you say bought and sold? All right. But not, I think, needlessly spent." The
Terry Pratchett
#76. Doctors troubleshoot the human body - they never got a chance to debug it. (It took God one day to design, prototype, and release that product; talk about schedule pressure! I guess we can forgive priority-two bugs like bunions and male pattern baldness.)
David J. Agans
#77. It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.
Madeleine Roux
#78. My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.
Chloe Sevigny
#79. My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
John Lasseter
#80. My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar Wilde
#81. You can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.
Philip Reeve
#82. Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#83. To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#84. They never opened the door which leads to the soul.
Henry Miller
#85. Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
#86. It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.
Elizabeth Berg
#87. To be honest, it would be nice if love, and sex, and duty, and fidelity, all managed to happen at once, but for me they never seemed to line up.
Marshall Thornton
#88. I don't get much sauciness, I'm too old for saucy now, but back in the day I think there were a few marriage proposals. And I do use the fact women approach me as a chance to chat them up. They never seem to mind too much.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
#89. I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.
Chuck Inglish
#90. Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.
Steve Maraboli
#91. You don't make waves unless there's a reason, and it better be good. Because once you do, that's it. You're a trouble make, and they never think of you any other way.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#92. The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.
Jack Lambert
#93. Gods, if they're neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.
Nancy Farmer
#94. You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care ...
John Geddes
#95. The Greeks called this place the omphalos, literally the belly button of the earth, though they never specified whether it was an innie or an outie.
Rick Riordan
#96. You made peace," said the buffalo man. "You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here - and the people who worshiped them were here - because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.
Neil Gaiman
#97. Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.
Courtney M. Privett
#98. People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
Jackie Cooper
#99. I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
Hector Hugh Munro
#100. I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
George J. Mitchell
