Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 6763 authors
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
— John Milton
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Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm…
— George MacDonald
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We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live…
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.
— Charlotte Alington Barnard
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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds…
— Saint Augustine
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Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
— Margaret Mead
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We cannot say to one couple that their love is deserving of marriage and to another that their love should only be called a partnership.…
— Christine Gregoire
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You have got to compete with them...you have to be working toward a future of your own. A picture of the future of your own…
— Scott Lively
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to…
— Orson Scott Card
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You should not say anything that you cannot put your totality behind. The total value of you is that whatever you say, you stick with…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an…
— Rajneesh
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It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
— C.S. Lewis
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Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the…
— Peter Senge
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I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
— Gore Vidal
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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them,…
— Lord Byron
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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and…
— Camille Paglia
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
— John Ruskin
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Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our…
— Peter Russell
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How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future.
— Gerald Jampolsky
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