He Cannot Quotes
500 quotes by 390 authors
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Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought.…
— Ben Loory
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The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or…
— Ken Saro-Wiwa
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer…
— Oswald Chambers
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God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of Celestial…
— Orson Pratt
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her…
— Betty Friedan
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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
— Dorothy Parker
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When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Â Behind him he has all the…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he…
— Earl Warren
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The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can…
— Robert E. Lee
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Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide…
— Orson Scott Card
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I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him.
— Jim Cymbala
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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds…
— Saint Augustine
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It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
— C.S. Lewis
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The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see…
— Herbert Hoover
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An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened…
— Henry Ford
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