Quotes about never (16 Quotes)


    What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turnedand you with it, dust of the dust' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'


    Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, 'NEVER NEVER.'


    Words are no longer enough. It is time for action. This is the first genocide of the 21 st century. The world has said, 'Never again.' Those words must mean something.


    My point is not only about teaching and having the ability to learn but also the ability to retain so you don't have to tell them the same thing over and over again, ... It's like a teacher. When you give them a test, you don't know what that student knows. How do you give a test here except on the field Roger Craig told me, 'Never assume that they know. You can assume they should know, but there's no guarantee.'


    Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.


    His smile made a difference, along with his courage and his heart. What a player he was - his heart outweighed any of his opponents. He led by example with a 'never give up' attitude.

    LITTLE THINGS Oh, it's just the little homely things, The unobtrusive friendly things, The 'won't you let me help you' things That make our pathway light And it's just the jolly joking things, The 'never mind the trouble' things, The 'laugh with me, it's funny' things, That make the world seem bright. For all the countless famous things, The wondrous record breaking things, Those never-can-be-equalled things That all the papers cite, Are not like little human things The'just because I like you' things That make us happy quite. So here's to all the little things, The 'done and then forgotten' things, Those 'Oh, it's simply nothing' things, That make life 'worth the fight.' Grace Haines.



    Presidents Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt had the strongest cabinets of any other president in this century. Their criterion was, 'Never mind personal weaknesses, tell me first what each of them can do.'

    When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

    My father used to say 'Never suspect people. It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common.'



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