Was Never Quotes

#1. Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out to a select few, but just like his mother, Ethan realized that he was never meant to have it.

Belinda G. Buchanan

#2. Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.

Johnny Weir

#3. I was never meant to save a soul, and no one was purposed as a project. We were meant to be comrades, mutually passing around whatever we have to offer.

Shannan Martin

#4. You can't switch sides!" I glare at him in fury.
"I was never on your side," retorts Lorcan. "Your side is the nutty side.

Sophie Kinsella

#5. My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#6. Universal emptiness is mere concept.
The fact is, there was never emptiness.

Toba Beta

#7. The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Frederick Douglass

#8. I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Idris Elba

#9. "God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#11. I used to think that God had no plan for me in life. That was never God's plan. I had to learn to love myself before I could love others.

Amy Roloff

#12. Creativity isn't always about thinking outside the box, it's about looking around you and realizing there was never a box there in the first place.

Robert Michael Gallant

#13. There was a sigh from Death. Space he thought. That was the trouble. It was never like this on worlds with everlastingly cloudy skies. But once humans saw all that space, their brains expanded to try and fill it up.

Terry Pratchett

#14. In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Edith Wharton

#15. Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission. And here it came roaring back, leaving her feverish and weak and unable to move in the bright afternoon sun. It

Lauren Gilley

#16. The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

Robert Jay Lifton

#17. There was never a time when we did not exist.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

Rose McGowan

#19. When I was 4, my parents took me to see a musical, and I was like, 'I want to do that!' I started doing all sorts of musical camps and a lot of professional theater. I took dance classes for 10 years, too - I was never the most amazing kid in the other classes, but tap stuck with me for some reason.

Aubrey Peeples

#20. Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

J. Lynn

#21. But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was never moved by what I was doing (in an interview she said, "He writes his own material, I'm always telling him he needs a new writer") ...

Steve Martin

#22. If you love someone, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be yours.

Yoana Dianika

#23. I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

Lance Bass

#24. Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

Jonathan Kozol

#25. It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.

Keary Taylor

#26. It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

Nick Offerman

#27. He was never good in a fight. Preferred to sleep off the anger and pretend that everything was fine in the morning.

Alessandra Torre

#28. There was never any question, not for either of us, that we'd stay together after high school. Richie Wilson was the love of my life.

Jessica Warman

#29. I was never sure what vampire powers Teddy had been gifted with. Victoria had the ability to read minds. Meekah could see visions of the future. Michael had been given eternal sexiness, I guessed.

S.J. Wright

#30. As there was never any question there was never any answer.

Gertrude Stein

#31. Life was never meant to be serious, it was meant to be a joy.

Steven Redhead

#32. That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

Morrissey

#33. I was never one to pull a band aid off slowly. Besides, we could be struck by lightning right now and I don't think I'd feel it or care. I want you inside me, Jack. Now. Not slowly, but like right now.

Natasha Boyd

#34. Alexander Gustafsson was never my friend

Dana White

#35. I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.

Sara Shepard

#36. It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

Roy Moore

#37. I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.

Saul David

#38. Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.

Karen Armstrong

#39. It occurs to me that one day was never meant to hold so much.

Katie Cotugno

#40. I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

David Soul

#41. Their friendship sometimes struck Frances as being like a piece of soap-like a piece of ancient kitchen soap that had got worn to the shape of her hand, but which had been dropped to the floor so many times it was never quite free of its bits of cinder.

Sarah Waters

#42. You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

Leighton Meester

#43. I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

Ian McLagan

#44. Say again, over," he announced.
"I was saying that I'm going from here on foot," Arkeley told them. "You can follow however you choose but this place was never meant for a military parade."
"He's making fun of your truck," Caxton told Captain Suzie.

David Wellington

#45. I don't think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and as I see it happening to me, I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible.

Miley Cyrus

#46. She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

Jodi Picoult

#47. I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Francis Ford Coppola

#48. I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally ... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

Antony Sher

#49. Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

Charles Goodnight

#50. There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

Sheryl Swoopes

#51. I ended up comparing any girl I was ever with to you. I was never going to find you in any of them was I, AJ? Because there will never be another you.

Jaimie Roberts

#52. Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul ... it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

Noel Gallagher

#53. My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

Hosni Mubarak

#54. I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

Gold Panda

#55. That," she says, "was never here before.

Jodi Picoult

#56. I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

Alexander McQueen

#57. I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

Noam Chomsky

#58. The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

Jacques Hadamard

#59. I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

Nancy Pelosi

#60. I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

Charles Kuralt

#61. I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.

Roy Harper

#62. A temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.

D.H. Lawrence

#63. My goal was never to sell many records.

Chuck Mangione

#64. When I was two I was always like "I wanna be a famous singer when I grow up." When you listen to most kids they went in and did all these competitions. I was never like that, my mom never pushed me like that. I pretty much just sang when I wanted to.

Kiley Dean

#65. There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

Joe Abercrombie

#66. If she can be stolen, then she was never yours to begin with. And do not insult my skills or question my ability to come through. I always come through.

J.A. Huss

#67. Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#68. Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

Frederick Lenz

#69. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as single and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet, on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#70. Part of life was never getting a chance to say all that you should to someone before they are gone.

Robert J. Wiersema

#71. I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

Dan Maffei

#72. For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

Alexander Pope

#73. It was loud and crazy, and sometimes someone got shot with a stray poisoned arrow, but it was never boring.

Anonymous

#74. Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

Neil Oliver

#75. I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

Corey Feldman

#76. She often told her children that they couldn't change the past and they couldn't jump forward to the future. All they had was today, and they needed to live it in such a way that they wouldn't create just another regretted yesterday. Mourning the past was never productive-she knew this full well.

Tracie Peterson

#77. As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

Michael Johnson

#78. It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Meg Ryan

#79. I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

Gal Gadot

#80. Simon winced as the man fought for words. He didn't appear to be stuttering so much as emotionally overcome, but it was never pleasant when one couldn't get a sentence out.

Julia Quinn

#81. It was all I wanted for the longest time- to open my eyes and see you there. To stretch out my hand and touch the soft, yielding warmth of your skin. But now I have learned the secret of distance. Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.

Lang Leav

#82. But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them.

Orson Scott Card

#83. If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.

Arthur Golden

#84. I'm not reckless. I was never reckless.

Richard Hammond

#85. I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do.

Gillian Flynn

#86. I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Steven Spielberg

#87. I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought of going to a nudist colony.

Bettie Page

#88. The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Richard Powers

#89. I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.

Bob Dylan

#90. Well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

Diana Gabaldon

#91. A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

Kevin Starr

#92. We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

Maya Lin

#93. When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.

Justina Machado

#94. Trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Amelia Barr

#95. And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and broken and empty.
- Rachel

Lindsey Kelk

#96. We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

Francisco Franco

#97. We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began to emerge. And we began to think of it as a democracy. We're going to bring it into the West. All is going to be wonderful. That was never in the cards.

Marvin Kalb

#98. God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

Merritt Y. Hughes

#99. The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#100. I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it ... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street.

Ruben Blades