We Cannot Quotes

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Unless we remember we cannot understand. — E. M. Forster
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something… — E. M. Forster
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst… — E. M. Forster
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which… — E. M. Forster
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and… — William Hague
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If… — Nhat Hanh
When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not… — Nhat Hanh
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if… — Garrett Hardin
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted… — Stephen Hawking
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone… — Rutherford B. Hayes
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. — William Hazlitt
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all… — Dorothy Height
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? — Patrick Henry
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that… — Frank Herbert
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that… — Hermann Hesse
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell… — Thor Heyerdahl
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. — Miguel de Icaza
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. — T.D. Jakes
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. — William James

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