One Cannot Quotes

515 quotes by 387 authors

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Burton
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick,… — Sholom Aleichem
I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented,… — Camille Claudel
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. — Jean Anouilh
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where one despises, one cannot wage war. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies,… — Jurgen Habermas
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free. — James A. Baldwin
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing. — Nellie L. McClung
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to… — F. H. Bradley
Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports. — Sun Tzu
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The… — Douglas MacArthur
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. — Leon Battista Alberti
One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no… — Sigurd F. Olson
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they… — Sigmund Freud
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life. — Paul Tillich
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,… — Oscar Wilde

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