You Could Never Quotes

#1. Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything son.

Donnell Rawlings

#2. Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

Michelle Moran

#3. He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#4. You could never know what transpired beneath another's skin.

Ward Just

#5. New York City. Once it got into your blood, you could never get it out again.

Douglas Preston

#6. You could never 'toss' your emotional baggage. You could only store it in an overhead compartment that might burst open at any given moment.

S.A. Lusher

#7. He had this way of talking where you could never quite be sure that he wasn't mocking you.

Jojo Moyes

#8. Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

Renee Fleming

#9. Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

Louis Bayard

#10. There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.

George Orwell

#11. I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

Sylvia Plath

#12. I don't believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

Paulo Coelho

#13. How did I look at you? I asked thickly. Like you had to, like I was a magnet you were pulled to. There was no choice, he said. And when you look at Jack, it's because when he's around, why would you want to look at anything else? You love him the way you could never love me.

Amanda Hocking

#14. The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

Alice Hoffman

#15. Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

Joyce Meyer

#16. Princess, you could never be that. You are unique to me. (Zarek) Am I your rose? (Astrid) Yes, you are my rose. There is only one of you in all the millions of planets and stars. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it be about Harriett Potter because nobody would read it; people only want to read an adventure story if it's about a boy,' and I thought, 'I don't think that's true.'

Cassandra Clare

#18. I'll dream up a world where you never existed. A world you could never live in. I'll live there without you.

Coco J. Ginger

#19. It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Deb Caletti

#20. He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as if he didn't have a care in the world. You had to be careful with someone like that. You could never know what he was thinking.

Jim Thompson

#21. Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.

Robin Williams

#22. You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Susanna Hoffs

#23. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.

Yuval Noah Harari

#24. That was the absolute worst thing about love; no matter how hard you tried, you could never forget the person who had your heart.

Tarryn Fisher

#25. You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything.

Andrew Smith

#26. You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

Dan Hill

#27. Tragedy did that - brought people together in ways you could never force.

Nancy Naigle

#28. Music, or a voice; just some trick of the river on stones, the breeze in the hollow oak? The wood had a million voices, changing with every season and every day; you could never know them all.

Tana French

#29. And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.

Rose Fyleman

#30. It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

Caroline Gordon

#31. Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

Ann Aguirre

#32. I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

Janet Fitch

#33. The worst feeling in life is not being lonely; it's being forgotten by the one person you could never forget.

Rahul Rawat

#34. You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head.

Daniel Handler

#35. Perfection is the absolute right word. And you could never ruin it," she said in a low, calm voice. "Not when it was perfect because of you.

Laura Kaye

#36. I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

Anthony Jeselnik

#37. But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open.

Tayari Jones

#38. Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

Soren Kierkegaard

#39. He was like water - cold, deep, unpredictable, and, like the pond up the canyon, dangerous, because you could never see what was beneath the surface. And just like I'd done all my life, I jumped in head first, even though I'd been forbidden. But this time, I drowned.

Amy Harmon

#40. He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

Alice Hoffman

#41. When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.

Emma Forrest

#42. You could never be just any girl. And it has nothing to do with the fact that you're famous.' His hand tightened on hers. 'You're very special, Nicola. Very, very special.

Bella Andre

#43. It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

Glenn Tipton

#44. I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

Gisele Bundchen

#45. [In the mines] Sometimes a man just walked over the edge [to his death] for no reason at all, or because he was unhappy and did not want to live anymore. You could never tell; there are many sadnesses in the heart of men who are far away from their countries.

Alexander McCall Smith

#46. I replied that you could never change your life, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn't at all dissatisfied with mine here.

Albert Camus

#47. In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

Dexter Filkins

#48. And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.

Leigh Bardugo

#49. Devil, you are fired
You could never ever have been required
For all the fiascos you inspire
I pour on you the Lord's unquenchable fire
Now get thee behind me, devil
You scheming sneaky crafty cunning conniving embodiment of evil

Pedro Okoro

#50. I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.

Noah Hathaway

#51. It was strange learning the contours of another's loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.

Brit Bennett

#52. You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

Erica Bauermeister

#53. Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract- like breathing, but you could never fill your lungs up with the same air twice.

Andrew Smith

#54. I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#55. You could never understand why I grind like I do
Makiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do

Nicki Minaj

#56. They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked.

Erich Segal

#57. When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

Michael Arad

#58. When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

Steven Spielberg

#59. The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

John Lennon

#60. When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Christopher Nolan

#61. Maybe once you had known fear and love and beauty, you could never unknow them.

Matt Haig

#62. You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

Danielle Steel

#63. We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Erin Morgenstern

#64. This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

Tana French

#65. You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

Deb Caletti

#66. Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.

Norman Mailer

#67. You can't have all the answers now or you could never grow from making a choice. If you want to grow, you must face adversity and make decisions without having all the answers.

Eric Buffington

#68. Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

Timothy Keller

#69. In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.

Julianne Moore

#70. I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

Sarah Dessen

#71. You could never know when everything might change - a mood, a decision, a blanket. A life. They

Richard Flanagan

#72. Was memory like a river that slowed over time to a trickle? Or was it like a house with many rooms that became a house with fewer rooms and then finally just a single room you could never leave? Was that the worst fate in the world? It depended, Wyatt supposed, on what room you ended up in.

Lou Berney

#73. Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Andy Warhol

#74. That once people decided what they thought of you, that was it. You'd been judged. You got a stamp on your forehead that you could never wash off.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#75. Fantasies hurt. They hurt hard and deep. They lifted you up to places that you could never reach, then they let you down with a crash.

Peter Lerangis

#76. It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

Rob Sheffield

#77. Understand That Bad Reviews Are a Sign That You're Relevant The only way you could never get any negative reviews would be if you were so incredibly irrelevant that no one thought you were worth talking or thinking about.

Sean Platt

#78. Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Ernest Hemingway,

#79. I don't want you because I expect you to swoop in and rescue me and make everything all right.I don't want you because you're beautiful. None of that matters. you could never be a bad bargain to me, because ... you're you.
And I love you.

Zoe Marriott

#80. Now, as he finished the last of his porridge, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni reminded himself that the one thing he felt certain about when it came to women was that you could never be sure.

Alexander McCall Smith

#81. Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#82. Was it better to think you had lost everything, and to start over? Or easier to know that the people you loved were alive, even if you could never see them again?

Cassandra Clare

#83. I'm sorry. but you could never tell the difference between the mood you were in, and me.

Pleasefindthis

#84. If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

Gautama Buddha

#85. Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.

Lev Grossman

#86. Every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.

Kate DiCamillo

#87. It was terrifying to love someone who was forbidden to you. Terrifying to feel something you could never speak of, something that was horrible to almost everyone you knew, something that could destroy your life.

Cassandra Clare

#88. Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Cecelia Ahern

#89. Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.

Lionel Shriver

#90. There was something about having someone care about you like that that made you feel like you could never be totally alone.

Cassandra Clare

#91. His hands skim my bare arms. "Just bounce a little when you walk," he says, kissing my forehead, "and pretend you're afraid of their guns" - another kiss between my eyebrows - "and act like the shrinking violet you could never be " - a kiss on my cheek - "and you'll be fine.

Veronica Roth

#92. We have things of value, but you could never find them because you don't even know how to look.

Ally Condie

#93. Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You and me, we're not 'normal.

Christina Baker Kline

#94. There. We can be friends now."
"Someone like you could never be my friend."
"Why ever not?"
"Because I'm a nice person, and you're a sick, twisted bitch.

John Hennessy

#95. Having a breakdown was like breaking a vase and then gluing it back together. You could never trust yourself to handle that vase again with any surety. You couldn't put a flower in it because flowers need water and water might dissolve the glue. Am I crazy, then?

Stephen King

#96. I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

John Waters

#97. I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.

Juliet Marillier

#98. In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.

John McPhee

#99. We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

Penny Marshall

#100. Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of Godlight' in the woods of our experience.

C.S. Lewis