They Cannot Quotes
675 quotes by 531 authors
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Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.
— Samuel Johnson
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God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.
— David Eagleman
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Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.
— William Hare
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
— Xunzi
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Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
— Henry David Thoreau
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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel…
— Rajneesh
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Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They…
— Bill Drayton
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For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world…
— Kevin Bales
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Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and…
— George Cheyne
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If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since…
— Ayn Rand
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Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.
— D. A. Carson
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Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill…
— George Downame
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Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
— John Calvin
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If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to…
— Evelyn Glennie
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None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.
— Ellen G. White
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People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it…
— Henry Cloud
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