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Cannot Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it…
- A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
- Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have…
- Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
- The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the…
- We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
- Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:…
- The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot…
- Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes
- I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in…
- The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
- It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to…
- We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
- To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable…
- Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
- Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are…
- Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel…
- There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born…
- The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
- A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot…
More Cannot Quotes
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- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure. — Mark Twain