One Cannot Quotes

515 quotes by 387 authors

One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war. — Megan Whalen Turner
Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if oneâ€™s body is attacked… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor… — Nelson Mandela
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
If youâ€™re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly… — William Gibson
One cannot always marry the person one loves... — Kate Mosse
The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but… — Trenton Lee Stewart
I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One… — Gene Stratton-Porter
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a… — Lauren Oliver
A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read. — Earl Nightingale
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. — Hermann Hesse
There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since… — Dian Fossey
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting… — Virginia Woolf
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last… — Hermann Hesse
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates… — Albert Einstein
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. — Jane Austen
One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see. — Virginia Woolf
So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of… — Bernhard Schlink
One cannot apologize for one's nature. — Matthew J. Kirby

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