Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 6763 authors
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
— Martial
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One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for…
— Allen Dulles
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Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God,…
— Ronald Reagan
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change…
— Karl Barth
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Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put…
— Elias Zerhouni
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We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be…
— Ernest Holmes
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America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will…
— Barack Obama
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Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave…
— Neil Gaiman
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You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a…
— Thomas Merton
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What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from…
— Edith Wharton
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But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to…
— George Orwell
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The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it…
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us…
— Helen Keller
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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its…
— August Strindberg
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A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
— Bertrand Russell
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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
— C. V. Wedgwood
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Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.
— F. M. Powicke
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History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
— Ernst Troeltsch
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History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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