Cannot Quotes
17188 Cannot quotes by 6763 unique authors
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Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.
— William Harvey
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Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from…
— India.Arie
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Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Duty cannot exist without faith
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life…
— William T. Vollmann
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Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.
— Henry Demarest Lloyd
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The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of…
— Woodrow Wilson
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If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however,…
— John Hagee
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I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was…
— Don Bluth
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Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
— Chuck Jones
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I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.
— Alexander Herzen
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Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the…
— Noam Chomsky
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can…
— Igor Stravinsky
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
— Igor Stravinsky
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
— Igor Stravinsky
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim…
— Alva Myrdal
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There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste…
— Fredrik Bajer
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To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the…
— Jules Henry
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We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where…
— Herb Kohl
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I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
— Robert McNamara
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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
— Warren Buffett
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We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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