They Cannot Quotes

675 quotes by 528 authors

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control. — Robin Maxwell
I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible… — Heidi Julavits
Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy… — Dean Koontz
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be… — Ezra Pound
They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they… — Patrick O'Brian
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked… — Nicholas Sparks
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. — Barbara Tuchman
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being… — C.S. Lewis
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and… — Azar Nafisi
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic… — Angela Carter
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me!… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for… — Franz Kafka
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in… — Bertrand Russell
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly… — Aravind Adiga
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long… — William Faulkner
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the… — Samuel Adams
Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns… — J C Ryle
I never, even for a moment, doubted what theyâ€™d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel:… — David Foster Wallace

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