Cannot Make Quotes

275 quotes by 229 authors

My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man… — Maria Jeritza
You can clear the land, plow the field, spread the fertilizer, and plant the corn. But you cannot make it rain. You cannot prevent an… — Melody Beattie
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been… — Clarence Thomas
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not… — Rajneesh
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out… — Leo Ornstein
We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment. — William Griffith Thomas
One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith. — Pope Francis
You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make… — Carlos Slim
The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political… — William Howard Taft
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children. — Jesse Jackson
The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of… — Confucius
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher. — Martin Luther
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men… — Herman Melville
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must… — Lord Chesterfield
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as… — Brandon Lee

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