Cannot Possibly Quotes
93 quotes by 78 authors
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We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without…
— James Davison Hunter
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to…
— Nikki Giovanni
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Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is…
— B. C. Forbes
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That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
— C.S. Lewis
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science…
— William S. Burroughs
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Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong…
— Timothy Keller
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Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading…
— Christopher Hitchens
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As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the…
— Claude Bernard
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The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go…
— Henry Thomas Hamblin
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... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the…
— Terence Tao
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Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.
— Dan Quayle
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We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
— Michel de Montaigne
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People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is…
— Roger Ebert
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You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
— Thomas Merton
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If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film,…
— Dino De Laurentiis
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These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process…
— Frederick Lenz
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