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Never believe anything until it has been officially denied
CLAUD COCKBURN Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
CLAUD COCKBURN Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.
EDWARD CHEYFITZ If you believe that your destiny can be delayed, then it has been denied because he whom you believe...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
BOOTH TARKINGTON I will not comment on the issue until anything is officially known.
VEERAPPA MOILY Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
CLAUD COCKBURN What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that ...
CLAUD COCKBURN Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite gr...
CLAUD COCKBURN Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like ...
CLAUD COCKBURN A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of...
CLAUD COCKBURN Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe
CLAUD COCKBURN We officially deny that (Ratko) Mladic has been arrested.
FLORENCE HARTMANN She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
D.H. LAWRENCE The proof is completely clear and the CIA has never denied it.
DICK MARTY It means access to technology and commerce that has been long been denied to India.
LALIT MANSINGH Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity i...
WILLIAM KIRBY I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and op...
LILY TOMLIN For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
WILLIAM JAY SMITH The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Since then there has been a settlement offer, which the class has denied.
JOSHUA KNAPP I will not believe anything until I see it is inked in blood.
COMMISSIONER MIGUEL TERAN You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do ...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Ric...
OSCAR FONSECA anything else?
ANYTHING You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
C.S. LEWIS I wouldn't let him buy one until I officially made the team,
RYAN FITZPATRICK It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection...
ALFRED LOISY I believe growing old is a great privilege that too many of our friends and family have been denied.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.
KENNETH ROBERTS People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.
KENNETH ROBERTS Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded
VIRGINIA WOOLF You can never value freedom until you have been imprisoned,you can never value shoes until you have ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a...
C.S. LEWIS We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything con...
EDWARD TAYLOR Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally ...
CARTER G. WOODSON Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is lov...
FRANCESCO TOTTI You never really thought anything about it until you're affected by it. Then it brings it home,
ANN MOORE The party itself never officially endorsed or recommended him.
KUNIKO INOGUCHI It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...
HELEN KELLER The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER I have not been officially notified. I would not want to comment on anything. Complete responsibilit...
BORISLAV MILOSEVIC Never believe you have a friend until money comes.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried;Then ask God's help; it will not be denied.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER We officially deny that Mladic has been arrested. To our knowledge there is not even an operation on...
FLORENCE HARTMANN My client has previously denied that any sexual activity ever took place in that bathroom stall and ...
PETE ANDERSON A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Never put off anything until tomorrow except anger and jealousy.
VIKRANT PARSAI In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
BARACK OBAMA We never do anything well until we cease to think about the manner of doing it
WILLIAM HAZLITT We never like cases to take this long, but they happen. The court has heard that request (to continu...
FRANK JACKSON If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never h...
BIBLE There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL He who never has enough, never has anything.
VIKRANT PARSAI Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.
BOB NOVAK Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
TINY TIM Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivi...
NORMAN GEISLER Kent has never been one to stick with a lot of anything. He can do anything, but he gets bored too e...
TERRY PROFFIT Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.
JULIA CHILD The man has been denied legal access, he has not been given enough legal advice or told of his right...
ABDEL HAQ ALANI You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.
JAMES TOBACK You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted ...
GARY HOPKINS I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only r...
FERNANDO PESSOA Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything e...
MARTHA BECK Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON This generation today has been exposed to more experimentation, and it's rare to find a candidate wh...
LT. RAUL MUNGUIA Sometimes you will never believe in yourself until its the only choice.
MORAKENG SEKGOKA Just like white supremacists there are hetero-supremacists. They believe that by virtue of the fact ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. We've been hoping all along that it's March, and this is another good indication that it is March. A...
GERALD GOODMAN Up until now I've never done anything bad—not that this is bad. I've never even been late for curf...
BRYNNA GABRIELSON Surprisingly, in over two centuries of Supreme Court precedent, the issue has never been squarely pr...
DOUGLAS KMIEC On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.
PAWAN MISHRA All Iran wants to do is to enjoy the right under the NPT, the right which has been denied to it for ...
SIRUS NASSERI I won't believe it until I see the money. I have never seen so many people on the streets.
ALEXANDRA MONTANER We have been officially informed that the embassy will reopen on Monday.
DESRA PERCAYA I can tell you that it was the most embarrassing moment of my life. The weapon, which has been my du...
JEFF RHODES There had never been a Class A1 event; it had always been a purely theoretical designation. Until no...
A. ASHLEY STRAKER Hypothetically, if the headquarters officially has been moved to New York, perhaps it has some tax i...
JAKE HAULK I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. ...
LIONEL MESSI We will not be commenting until it has been received and reviewed.
HAROLD HOLZER The groundwork has been done, everyone involved is now on the same page. So I am pleased to say the ...
JANNIE FERREIRA I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking...
GREIL MARCUS Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
ALBERT EINSTEIN He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from...
WARREN EYSTER Pain has been never been a gain... it has been the thing which stops people.
DEYTH BANGER The trend in the technology sector has been very, very heavily weighted on the downside, and until t...
FRED KETCHEN I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never i...
GIULIANA RANCIC Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
FRENCH PROVERB He was never verbal about it until it was so clear he had such a talent I couldn't picture him doing...
CLIFF FINCH File sharing has never been more popular than it is now, ... People have heard all the legal threats...
ERIC GARLAND It is now officially at an end.
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