He Cannot Quotes
500 quotes by 390 authors
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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone…
— Richard Avedon
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When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if…
— Albert Einstein
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The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise…
— Ambrose
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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of…
— Saint Augustine
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
— St. Jerome
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If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.
— Percy Cerutty
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
— Elie Wiesel
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By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give…
— Ayn Rand
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O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: He saved others, himself he cannot save!
— Norbert of Xanten
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Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course,…
— David McClelland
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A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
— John Heywood
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must…
— Umberto Eco
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly…
— Northrop Frye
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He…
— Lin Yutang
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Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under…
— Thomas Carlyle
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There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
— Stirling Moss
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Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry…
— Susan Howe
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