He Cannot Quotes
500 quotes by 388 authors
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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged…
— Steve Martin
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But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.
— Libba Bray
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Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his…
— Mircea Eliade
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Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.
— Milan Kundera
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I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his…
— Jodi Picoult
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I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.
— Jodi Picoult
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
— E. M. Forster
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I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden…
— Guy de Maupassant
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
— Oscar Wilde
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
— P T Barnum
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents…
— R L Stine
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Another ten points from Gryffindor,†said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him…
— Arthur Miller
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The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show…
— Brennan Manning
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A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
— Philippa Gregory
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The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and…
— Patti Smith
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That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it…
— Jonathan Edwards
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