He Cannot Quotes
500 quotes by 376 authors
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Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the…
— Robert Penn Warren
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The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
— Bart D. Ehrman
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Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only…
— Thomas Paine
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A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in…
— George R. R. Martin
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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to…
— Cornelius Van Til
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Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference…
— Timothy Keller
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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or…
— Sydney J. Harris
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For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.
— Marisha Pessl
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
— H. L. Mencken
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
— John Stuart Mill
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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change…
— Karl Barth
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There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness…
— Rajneesh
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
— William Ralph Inge
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If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot…
— Martin Gardner
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In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle…
— Herbert Newton Casson
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