Ever Quite Quotes

33 quotes by 30 authors

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said… — Ronald Reagan
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat… — Christopher Isherwood
The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its… — Hans Cloos
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The… — Thomas McGuane
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses -… — Salman Rushdie
Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the… — Victor Davis Hanson
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too… — Raymond Chandler
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to… — James Clerk Maxwell
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. — H. L. Mencken
You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears… — Sean Parker
I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them. — Paula Radcliffe
Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form. — Lester Bangs
I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite… — Alison Brie
No man ever quite believes in any other man. — H. L. Mencken
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. — H. L. Mencken
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite… — Truman Capote
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true â€” nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be. — Amy Hempel
What a fine persecutionâ€”to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. — Tom Stoppard
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.… — Elwyn Brooks White

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