Never Quotes (page 643)

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• recognition
• reading
• book

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth. Marcel Proust

• art
• science
• miracle

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. Ray Bradbury

• saying
• may
• church

To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often... Aiden Wilson Tozer

• life
• work
• fun

i never did a day’s work in my life. it was all fun. Thomas Edison

• women
• life
• study

In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature? both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of... Shirley Hazzard

• him
• common
• commoners

JEANI need him like the axe needs the turkey. HARRINGTONDon't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common. Preston Sturges

• people
• serious
• take

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously Oscar Wilde

• love
• different
• differing

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. Paulo Coelho

• people
• lively
• like

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in. Quentin Crisp

• world
• choices
• short

We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive -... David Eddings

• dream
• men
• saying

Some men see things as they are and say "why." I dream things that never were and say "why not. Robert Kennedy

• street
• cover
• activate

Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again. Thornton Wilder

• she
• cells
• bits

In my prison cell i sit. With my britches full of $hitand my balls are bouncing gently on the floorand i see the bloody snagwhen she bit me in the bagoh, i'll never f--- a polack any more Kurt Vonnegut

• mother
• missing
• she

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay. Frank McCourt

• motivational
• giving up
• thinking

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties. Ron Paul