You Cannot Quotes
3282 quotes by 1861 authors
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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few…
— Gustave Flaubert
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
— William Faulkner
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Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.
— Eugene V. Debs
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You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense,…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what…
— Herman Melville
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Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
— Elie Wiesel
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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
— Agatha Christie
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Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never…
— Cornelia Funke
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In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which…
— William Shakespeare
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You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
— Stephen Hawking
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You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
— Ayn Rand
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I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the…
— Karen Cushman
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You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
— Ben Goldacre
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This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love…
— Kate DiCamillo
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The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am…
— Terry Pratchett
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Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.
— Rhonda Byrne
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