He Cannot Quotes
500 quotes by 376 authors
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The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is…
— Arthur Helps
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Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot…
— William James
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply…
— Samuel Johnson
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A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
— Robert E. Lee
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Obama's gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He's got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In…
— Rush Limbaugh
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of…
— John Locke
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more…
— Orison Swett Marden
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
— Karl Marx
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If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
— Claude McKay
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
— Arthur Middleton
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
— John Muir
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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
— Richard M. Nixon
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull…
— George Orwell
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
— Blaise Pascal
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds…
— Marquis de Sade
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions…
— George Santayana
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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
— Friedrich Schiller
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