He Cannot Quotes
500 quotes by 376 authors
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That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
— William Shakespeare
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He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.
— Charles Spurgeon
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that…
— Dante Alighieri
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You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with…
— Michael Ondaatje
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What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter…
— Michael Ondaatje
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There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be…
— Dorothy Parker
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
— Virginia Woolf
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We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,†Say nothing but…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not…
— William Shakespeare
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The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
— Ayn Rand
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The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out…
— J M Coetzee
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
— Oscar Wilde
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What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is…
— Ayn Rand
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I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say…
— Charlotte Bronte
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