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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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

I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a 'career builder.' I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with 'Caprica,' the...

Quotes by Eric Stoltz

I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.

Quotes by Eric Stonestreet

I don't think guys inherently don't want to clean. I think the roles are most definitely changing, but I think in a good relationship, it's never been defined as 'a lady does this and a guy does this.' I think,...

Quotes by Eric Stonestreet

I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.

Quotes by Eric Lewis

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.

Quotes by Eric Massa

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

Quotes by Eric Massa

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

Quotes by Eric McCormack

Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us...

Quotes by Eric Metaxas

I'm willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn't. That's because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you'll never hear about on television.

Quotes by Eric Metaxas

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well,...

Quotes by Eric Dickerson

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Quotes by Eric Fellner

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.

Quotes by Eric Heiden

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.

Quotes by Eric Idle

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

Quotes by Eric Idle

Sometimes it's tough as a supporting character: you are on the sidelines, and you don't get to be there for most of the fun stuff. You are hearing about all the great stuff that is going on, but you never...

Quotes by Eric Johnson

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Quotes by Eric Kandel

In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also...

Quotes by Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

Quotes by Eric Kandel

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.