We Cannot Quotes
2295 quotes by 1491 authors
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If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will…
— Nhat Hanh
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We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
— John F. Kennedy
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We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier…
— James A. Michener
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The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot…
— John C. Maxwell
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We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!
— Pope Francis
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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
— Hilaire Belloc
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We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.
— Henry Hazlitt
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We cannot give our children what we don’t have.
— Brené Brown
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We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
— Phyllis Bottome
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There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.
— Carl Pope
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First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting…
— Jean Klein
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If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But…
— Oswald Chambers
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Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We…
— Jeanette Winterson
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What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
— James Hansen
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We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.
— John W. Gardner
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than…
— Carrie P Snow
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