He Cannot Quotes

500 quotes by 390 authors

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. — William Shakespeare
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. — George Bernard Shaw
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently… — Baruch Spinoza
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we… — Johannes Tauler
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees,… — Mother Teresa
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. — Henry David Thoreau
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or… — Ida B. Wells
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. — Rebecca West
And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither… — Albert Camus
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he… — Sherman Alexie
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. — Albert Camus
I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is… — C.S. Lewis
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep:… — William Shakespeare
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he… — Martin Luther
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent,… — Pope John Paul II
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and… — C.S. Lewis

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