We Cannot Quotes
2295 quotes by 1491 authors
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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the…
— Neville Chamberlain
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Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk about everything. But…
— Yao Ming
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
— Agnes Repplier
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Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a…
— Wayne Dyer
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We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty…
— John C. Maxwell
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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation.…
— David Icke
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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men…
— Alfred Adler
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
— Mark Twain
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We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.
— Surya Das
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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
— Ugo Betti
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Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what…
— James Levine
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We cannot put off living until we are ready.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,…
— Lewis Thomas
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
— John Ruskin
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since…
— Henri Poincare
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the…
— Lewis Thomas
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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