He Cannot Quotes
500 quotes by 390 authors
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It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since…
— John Muir
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Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without…
— Ann Landers
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God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
— Emily Dickinson
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Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance…
— Erasmus Darwin
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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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The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his…
— Jonathan Rosen
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If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.
— Erich Fromm
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else;…
— George Bernard Shaw
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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion…
— Robert Kennedy
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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced,…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain…
— G I Gurdjieff
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own…
— James F. Cooper
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one…
— Norman Cousins
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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within…
— Meister Eckhart
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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
— Jim Elliot
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