Best Never Heard Proverbs
373 Never Heard quotes by 306 unique authors
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During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a…
— Anna Akhmatova
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She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been…
— Charles de Lint
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When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air…
— C.S. Lewis
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For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught…
— C.S. Lewis
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Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said…
— Douglas Adams
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world…
— Jane Austen
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Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out…
— Roberto Bolano
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Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
— Lewis Carroll
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I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.
— Truman Capote
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He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
— Will Rogers
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As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.
— Michael Crichton
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The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid.…
— Lisa Kleypas
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They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven…
— Anita Diament
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I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew…
— Lloyd Jones
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Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering…
— William Goldman
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard…
— Cormac McCarthy
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).…
— Edith Wharton
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No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into…
— W G Sebald
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