Never Quotes (page 331)

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• powerful
• consistency
• reading

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole... Lysander Spooner

• evening
• soldier
• fear

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near. Hans Christian Andersen

• religious
• evil
• evils

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. Umberto Eco

• quoting
• problem
• knowing

The problem with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine. Joseph Stalin

• evening
• been
• long

I've never even been to Long Island Meg Cabot

• you me
• hope
• dead

He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us."I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said.[Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked."I wish you hadn't told me that, babe."Everyone I know wants to see you naked."And you?"Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying. Janet Evanovich

• touching
• boys
• writing

Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, Live forever! Bradbury later said, I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped. Ray Bradbury

• book
• saying
• dictator

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. C. S. Lewis

• cover
• sleep
• vampire

Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did. Charlaine Harris

• peace
• tree
• rain

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace... Sara Teasdale

• mother
• son
• mother son

my mother never saw the irony of calling me a "son of a bitch Jack Nicholson

• life
• saying
• book

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own. Julian Barnes

• thursday
• beer
• overly

This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Douglas Adams

• fall
• may
• evening

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. Jodi Picoult

• time
• fall
• timely

The greatest glory in livinglies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela