We Cannot Quotes
2295 quotes by 1491 authors
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Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the same time. If we truly…
— Quentin L. Cook
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The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
— Eric Metaxas
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We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.
— Michel Sidibe
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We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man…
— Shoghi Effendi
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After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we…
— Genesis P-Orridge
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Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish…
— Yasser Arafat
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
— Wendell Berry
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We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's…
— Barry Lopez
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By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we…
— Geraldine Ferraro
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
— Walter Savage Landor
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We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the…
— Ken Danby
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
— John Keats
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Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.
— Edward Abbey
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Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded…
— Robert Adams
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