Cannot Quite Quotes
13 quotes by 10 authors
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
— Loren Eiseley
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Compared to 1999...we cannot quite declare victory, but we can declare progress.
— Jakob Nielsen
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No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in…
— Yip Harburg
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One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get…
— David Foster Wallace
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It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying…
— Libba Bray
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And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
— Annie Dillard
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The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the…
— Annie Dillard
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While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Cannot Quite Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 13 Cannot Quite Quotes as follows: