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Never Quotes

Quotes on what never happens.

This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn't have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else's.

Quotes by Richard Branson

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my...

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

Quotes by Richard Avedon

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

Quotes by Richard Avedon

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened' is one of the funniest lines in any film.

Quotes by Richard Ayoade

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Quotes by Richard Bach

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Quotes by Richard Bach

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Quotes by Richard Bach

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Quotes by Richard Baker

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.

Quotes by Richard Bausch

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

Quotes by Richard Baxter

People think of DiMaggio as the exemplar of a 'golden age,' and in some ways, he was. But in the most fundamental ways, he was really the first modern athletic superstar because, number one, he ushered in the era of...

Quotes by Richard Ben Cramer

I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant.

Quotes by Rich Moore

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

Quotes by Richard Adams

I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made...

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been enormous.

Quotes by Ricardo Rossello

I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

Quotes by Riccardo Sabatini

The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

Quotes by Riccardo Sabatini

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are gathered under "Never"?
These quotes explore things that haven't happened, aren't wanted, or weren't anticipated — unpublished books that never found a marketing angle, the idea that secrets are "never desirable" even when needed, and a reflection on how it "never occurred" to anyone that private conversation might need protecting.
Are these quotes mostly about regret?
Not exactly regret, more observation — noticing gaps, oversights, or things that didn't come to pass, like unpublished books or an unanticipated need for privacy protections.
Is there a quote about problem-solving here?
Yes — one notes that "people constantly face problems they've never seen before" and have to improvise solutions, which is a nice contrast to the other, more resigned quotes on this page.
How is "Never" different from <a href="/always-quotes">Always</a> quotes?
They're natural opposites — "Always" quotes are about consistency and long-held habits, while "Never" quotes are about absence, gaps, and things that haven't happened.
What should I read if I want something more upbeat?
Good quotes or Like quotes lean lighter, while "Never" quotes tend to be more contemplative. For a broader reflective read, Life quotes is also worth checking.

Other quotes touch on constitutional rights never explicitly written down, and the constant stream of new problems people have never faced before. See also Always Quotes and Good Quotes.