Can Not Quotes - Page 4

• You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

  John Ruskin

  Fun, World, Care

  John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.44

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

  William Whipple

  Navy, Opinion, Advantage

  7 Copy quote

• You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

  Jessica Zafra

  Love You, Hypnosis, White

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

  Roland Barthes

  Pain, Literature, Choke

  7 Copy quote

• …we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

  Italo Calvino

  Thinking, Disappear, Fragments

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Art, Believe, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.600, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.

  Darren Shan

  Stupid, Writing, Play

  4 Copy quote

• [...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

  Woody Allen

  Meaningful, Artist, Glasses

  4 Copy quote

• over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Offering, Pages

  4 Copy quote

• I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

  John Wooden

  Real, Taken, Away From You

  "Coach Wooden One-On-One".

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Fighting, Winning, People

  Letter to Andrew Carnegie, January 13, 1899.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

  Katherine Marsh

  Believe, Judging, Wish

  4 Copy quote

• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Trying, Shapes, Want

  C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.24, Princeton University Press

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets me know That your hearts are filled with woe It's a woe that no mortal can cure. -"the Curragh of Kildare

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Heart, Woe

  4 Copy quote

• The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Onward And Upward, Political, Intellectual

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better non-breaker than me, and that's Will Forte from 'SNL.' You can not make that guy break. I'll break eventually - Will Forte will never break.

  Oscar Nunez

  Guy, Snl, Break

  "Exclusive: The Office's Oscar Nunez Kisses and Tells". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 8, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Light, Self, White

  15 Copy quote

• Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?" Dylan: "It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you isn't it? It's incredible.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Men, Abby

  4 Copy quote

• The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

  Carl Jung

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Self

  21 Copy quote

• of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Strong, Practice

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

  Jim Talent

  Team, Successful, Decision

  4 Copy quote

• If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.

  Tristan Jones

  Waiting, Sailing, Dawn

  Tristan Jones (2014). “Outward Leg”, p.114, Open Road Media

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Distance, Thinking, Sky

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.6, Open Road Media

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• A zebra can not change it's spots.

  Al Gore

  Zebras, Stupid, Presidential

  57 Copy quote

• Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Teacher, Dad, College

  4 Copy quote