Cannot Always Quotes

85 quotes by 79 authors

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. — Wayne Dyer
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. — Jane Fonda
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. — Henry A. Kissinger
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions. — Madeleine M. Kunin
A President cannot always be popular. — Harry S. Truman
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. — Voltaire
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to… — Margaret Atwood
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I… — Louise Erdrich
Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light. — Kate DiCamillo
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. — Cassandra Clare
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus
One cannot always marry the person one loves... — Kate Mosse
Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek.… — Jeffrey R. Holland
if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you,… — John C. Maxwell
Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because… — Hermann Hesse
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth… — Mark Helprin
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be… — Gwendolyn Brooks
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want. — Holly Black
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle

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