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Cannot Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what…
- When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a…
- No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
- We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.
- When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
- There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
- One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
- The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something…
- When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an…
- If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a…
- It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.
- But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there…
- You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
- We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?
- Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
More Cannot Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden