Cannot Quotes
17188 Cannot quotes by 6763 unique authors
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Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
— Kenzo Tange
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One cannot say with words what music says without them.
— Unknown Author
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This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all…
— Garry Kasparov
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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a…
— Virginia Woolf
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Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
— Quintilian
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We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
— William Ernest Hocking
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Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.
— Winston Churchill
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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I…
— William Shakespeare
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When you love there is no 'I', so you cannot say 'I love you', only love is.
— Unknown Author
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
— Mark Twain
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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality…
— Mark Twain
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Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they…
— Havelock Ellis
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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts.…
— Confucius
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Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia....As a mother, I cannot imagine…
— Celine Dion
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Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
— Robert H. Jackson
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It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry…
— Brad Pitt
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We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise…
— Ambrose
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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of…
— Saint Augustine
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