They Cannot Quotes
675 quotes by 531 authors
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There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.
— Cassandra Clare
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One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such…
— Walter Isaacson
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I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about…
— Juliet Marillier
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Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to…
— George R. R. Martin
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
— Truman Capote
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Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be…
— Craig Ferguson
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He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot…
— Baruch Spinoza
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It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in…
— Anne Rice
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How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
— Sigmund Freud
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Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time,…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it.…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should…
— Alain de Botton
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Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse…
— Philippa Gregory
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Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside. She is gone, and they cannot track…
— Cassandra Clare
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To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances…
— Brennan Manning
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It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense…
— Dorothy Day
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In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience -…
— John F. Kennedy
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Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise,…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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