Things Cannot Quotes
41 quotes by 33 authors
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...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
— William J. Clinton
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Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you…
— David Whyte
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The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
— Lucretius
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Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
— Samuel Johnson
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When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so colorful, it is…
— Rajneesh
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New things cannot come where there is no room.
— Marlo Morgan
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The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these…
— Ashly Lorenzana
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple,…
— Marina Warner
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The most important things cannot be measured.
— W. Edwards Deming
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The most important things cannot be spoken; that’s why there’s music.
— Clive Wearing
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good,…
— Timothy Keller
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
— Plato
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with…
— William Osler
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I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is…
— Christopher Hitchens
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that…
— Stendhal
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men…
— Mark Twain
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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for…
— Voltaire
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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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