Cannot Help Quotes
239 quotes by 201 authors
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To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts…
— John F. Kennedy
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Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot…
— Elie Wiesel
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
— Jane Austen
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There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are…
— Kate Morton
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Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help…
— Michel Foucault
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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and…
— Philip Yancey
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If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that…
— Werner Heisenberg
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You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties…
— Amartya Sen
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I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.
— Thomas Ligotti
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What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague…
— George MacDonald
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Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel ---…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates…
— Albert Einstein
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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
— Hermann Hesse
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You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
— Laurie R. King
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Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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