We Cannot Quotes

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We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention. — Zadie Smith
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to… — Margaret Atwood
Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way. — Corrie Ten Boom
The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesnâ€™t annihilate them instantly with the wrong… — Charles Baxter
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. — Aristotle
As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a… — Wangari Maathai
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us,… — Dan Brown
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Things we cannot solve, we must survive. — Boyd K. Packer
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves.… — Aldous Huxley
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive… — Anne Lamott
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;… — Harold Bloom
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are… — William Butler Yeats
...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans,… — Paul Wellstone
We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting… — Sharon Shinn
For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel.… — Jeanette Winterson
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship… — Isabel Allende
And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot… — Ayn Rand
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us. — Harold S. Kushner

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