Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 6763 authors
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We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just…
— Hermann Hesse
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Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd…
— André Aciman
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What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity?…
— Alec Baldwin
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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
— Simone Weil
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If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my…
— Amy Carmichael
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There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
— Saint Augustine
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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
— Eugene Delacroix
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If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to…
— Nhat Hanh
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Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others-whether your friend or your enemy. If you cannot practice rejoicing,…
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
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Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.
— Radhanath Swami
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this…
— Pat Paulsen
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Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.
— Paulo Freire
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There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
— Bill Drayton
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The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.
— Unknown Author
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I tend to end relationships, so she can find somebody better than me. Because I want to be fair to people. I cannot devote enough…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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