One Cannot Quotes

515 quotes by 387 authors

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have… — David Rockefeller
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one… — Nathalie Sarraute
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one… — Eric Burdon
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but… — Harold Brodkey
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop… — Andrew Greeley
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different… — Judith Butler
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at… — Gottfried Leibniz
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ...… — Charlie Chaplin
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It… — Chester Himes
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head… — Eric Holder
I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day workâ€”and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our… — Jeffrey R. Holland
We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's… — Robert Musil
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that. — Sunil Gangopadhyaya
One should never condemn what one cannot understand. — Han Suyin
The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a… — Milovan ?ilas
History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to… — Preet Bharara
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful… — William Makepeace Thackeray
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. — George Will
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. — Nicolas Chamfort
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. — Bertolt Brecht

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