He Cannot Quotes

500 quotes by 390 authors

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. — Robert Breault
A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed… — Confucius
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and… — Jonathan Swift
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing… — Jonathan Swift
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he… — Gilbert Highet
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his… — Allen Tate
Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is… — Franz Kafka
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous. — James Boswell
The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still. — Clarence Day
The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth
As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births. — Gautama Buddha
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power… — Vance Havner
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal. — Boris Yeltsin
Uncertainty as to our relationship with God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the… — Horatius Bonar
The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail… — George C. Marshall
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. — Eric Gill
In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot… — Randy Travis
If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift? — Terry Goodkind
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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