You Cannot Quotes
3282 quotes by 1861 authors
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You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.
— Philip Roth
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It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
— Daniel Handler
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You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.
— Forrest Carter
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You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you…
— Michael Ondaatje
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It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among…
— Mark Twain
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she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not.…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of…
— Anne Rice
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Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk…
— Katherine Dunn
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Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.…
— Stephen Colbert
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You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.
— Franny Billingsley
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It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap,…
— Rajneesh
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this…
— C.S. Lewis
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You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.
— Amy Bloom
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If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.
— Lawrence Block
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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