Cannot Help Quotes
239 quotes by 201 authors
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Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do…
— Lorrie Moore
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The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any…
— Francis Chan
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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in…
— Oscar Wilde
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I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as…
— Anthony Burgess
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There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an…
— Knut Hamsun
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You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,
— Jacqueline Wilson
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Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time,…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of…
— James Allen
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians…
— Peter Singer
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An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or…
— Eve Ensler
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You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay,…
— John Updike
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Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit…
— Helen Keller
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We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and…
— Roger Bannister
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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
— Abraham Lincoln
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
— Katharine Hepburn
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just…
— Hermann Hesse
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Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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