Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 7215 authors
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how…
— Samuel Butler
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that…
— Samuel Butler
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to…
— Samuel Butler
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When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a…
— David Byrne
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
— Lord Byron
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
— Lord Byron
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
— Lord Byron
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You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
— Sholom Aleichem
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One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick,…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This…
— Vince Cable
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There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try…
— John Cage
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I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be…
— Herman Cain
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But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and…
— David Cameron
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Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.
— David Cameron
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If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely…
— David Cameron
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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of…
— Christopher Alexander
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
— James Cameron
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Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from…
— Kirk Cameron
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
— Joseph Campbell
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