Cannot Tell Quotes
168 quotes by 143 authors
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I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It…
— Chester Himes
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You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a…
— John McCain
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The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at…
— John F. Carlson
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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
— Hermann Hesse
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Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
— Saadi
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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul…
— Mark Twain
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The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
— Milton H. Erickson
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time…
— Saint Basil
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled…
— A. E. Housman
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You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot…
— Jane Roberts
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We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast…
— Karl Marx
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I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me,…
— Dick Van Dyke
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
— Lee Iacocca
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I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
— Chief Joseph
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I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
— Seth MacFarlane
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Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age…
— John Polkinghorne
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And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I…
— Ann Romney
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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across…
— Jonathan Sacks
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You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
— Elaine Stritch
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
— Virginia Woolf
Who Wrote These Cannot Tell Quotes
143 authors contributed a total of 168 Cannot Tell Quotes, led by these top contributors: