We Cannot Quotes
2295 quotes by 1491 authors
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We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us…
— Philip Gulley
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
— John Dryden
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
— Lucretius
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
— Andre Malraux
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp…
— Alan Greenspan
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When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
— Hannah More
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
— Barbra Streisand
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We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust…
— Francis Spellman
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Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to…
— A.J. Cronin
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To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
— Alan Lightman
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It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations.…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.
— Joseph Chamberlain
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
— Thomas Starr King
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Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head…
— Slobodan Milosević
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Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined…
— John McCain
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If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot…
— Jose Mourinho
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We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's…
— Pierre Pettigrew
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We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.
— Steven Pressfield
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