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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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

At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.

Quotes by David Sheff

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

Quotes by David Shuster

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.

Quotes by David Silva

The vampires of '30 Days of Night' never really came into discussions early on. They did later when we were trying to figure out the pathology of the 'Twilight' vampires. '30 Days' is a completely different film. If you are...

Quotes by David Slade

I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.

Quotes by David Slade

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the...

Quotes by David Small

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

Quotes by David Soul

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

Quotes by David Soul

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

Quotes by David Soul

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized,...

Quotes by David Souter

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

Quotes by David Souter

I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.

Quotes by David Spade

I never dated much in high school or college.

Quotes by David Spade

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

Quotes by David Steinberg

My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's...

Quotes by David Rubenstein

I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later.

Quotes by David Ruffin

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

Quotes by David S. Rose

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

Quotes by David Sanborn

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really...

Quotes by David Sanborn

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Quotes by David Sanborn

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.