One Cannot Quotes

515 quotes by 387 authors

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a… — Charles Spurgeon
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason,… — George Washington
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. — Horace Walpole
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless… — Simone Weil
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries… — Simone Weil
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. — Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. — Oscar Wilde
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. — Virginia Woolf
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now… — Boris Yeltsin
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. — Elizabeth Bowen
No human relation gives one possession in anotherâ€”every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands… — Khalil Gibran
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. — Martin Buber
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To know oneâ€™s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at oneâ€™s own face with oneâ€™s own eyes, for example. One… — Haruki Murakami
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a… — Vladimir Nabokov
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for… — Tennessee Williams
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. — Wystan Hugh Auden

Who Wrote These One Cannot Quotes

387 authors contributed a total of 515 One Cannot Quotes, led by these top contributors: