I Cannot Quotes
2161 quotes by 1433 authors
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Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I…
— John Strachan
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This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and…
— Virginia Foxx
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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed…
— John Bright
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I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
— Elfriede Jelinek
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I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid…
— Basil Rathbone
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I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
— Richard H. Davis
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The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture…
— John Philip Sousa
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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there…
— John Barton
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Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be…
— Robert Dale Owen
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Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally,…
— Robert Dale Owen
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I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of…
— Lester B. Pearson
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Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in…
— Henry Laurens
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I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
— Ethel Waters
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom…
— Owen Glendower
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Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do…
— Robert Fripp
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise,…
— Paddy Ashdown
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I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y…
— J. William Fulbright
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My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt…
— Helen Wills Moody
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We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I…
— Jon Porter
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As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but…
— Marcy Kaptur
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