Cannot Quite Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

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
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
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
Compared to 1999...we cannot quite declare victory, but we can declare progress. — Jakob Nielsen
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
One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men. — Hans Christian Andersen
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
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
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
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. — Annie Dillard
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
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

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