Cannot Quotes
17188 Cannot quotes by 6763 unique authors
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Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
— Margot Asquith
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Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
— Iris Murdoch
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
— Joseph Addison
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own…
— Ann Radcliffe
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The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss, such a benediction, because whatsoever…
— Rajneesh
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Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and…
— Rajneesh
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Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.
— Rajneesh
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You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If…
— Rajneesh
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You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live…
— Rajneesh
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and…
— Laozi
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
— Sylvia Plath
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If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.
— Italo Svevo
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God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.
— Marvin J. Ashton
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I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms,…
— Thomas Huxley
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But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.
— Matthew Lesko
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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
— Henry R. Luce
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Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of Celestial…
— Orson Pratt
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Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that…
— Unknown Author
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Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.
— Michael Martin Hammer
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I cannot stand being awake, the pain is too much.
— Spike Milligan
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