Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 6763 authors
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense…
— Terry Eagleton
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I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep…
— M. R. James
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O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!
— William Shakespeare
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.
— John Selden
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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But…
— Paul Bloom
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When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled,…
— Winston Churchill
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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
— Sholem Asch
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We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes…
— Geronimo
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you…
— Gertrude Stein
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
— Samuel Johnson
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There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of…
— Winston Churchill
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it…
— Sean O'Casey
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When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.
— David Ogilvy
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot.
— Hermann Hesse
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
— Lactantius
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Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything…
— Walter E. Williams
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I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some…
— William J. Clinton
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You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.
— Suzette Haden Elgin
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