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I Cannot Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
- I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early…
- When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey,…
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
- I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more…
More I Cannot Quotes
- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to… — Jane Austen
- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. — Jane Austen
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball
- I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand. — Brigitte Bardot