Can It Quotes

#1. How can it be expressed in anything but itself?

E. M. Forster

#2. Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. Just look educated. How hard can it be? Off you go." It

Katarina Bivald

#4. I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

Albert Einstein

#5. To be fated to lose. To know destiny itself the architect of my torment. Can it be true? Is to be Loki to be without hope? And if so...to whom can a god appeal for mercy?

Robert Rodi

#6. I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Colonel Sanders

#7. I'm not perfect. And I don't have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it's okay if I still screw up.

Melissa Darnell

#8. I'm really scared now, from choosing, from thinking and from taking risks and going out of the comfort zone. But what can it be done??
Time goes and goes, it eats people and it gives new people life...

Deyth Banger

#9. How can it not be bothering you though?" she asked.
"Beer, whiskey, and an invisible wall," I lied.

Alyse M. Gardner

#10. Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

Robert Musil

#11. The serious student of the Bible cannot dismiss homosexual behavior simply as an alternate lifestyle. Nor can it be argued that homosexuals were "born this way" or that such behavior is an illness.

Billy Graham

#12. When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression 'I am somewhat different from this [the body?]' And when dehadhyas, the belief of 'I am the body, the relative self', goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. If the majority of people of a country, no matter how great its natural resources, organize and conspire to get more out and put less in, to do less and get more, how long will, how long can it last?

William J.H. Boetcker

#14. When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into the realm where it belongs, instead of submitting to it.

Jean Gebser

#16. You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

William Shakespeare

#18. One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.

Matt Haig

#19. The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.

Rick Stein

#20. As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the whole world ... The life of no human being is cheap in the eyes of God, nor can it be in our own eyes.

Billy Graham

#21. I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?

William Shakespeare

#22. WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

Terry Pratchett

#23. I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

Jamaica Kincaid

#24. Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

Gunter Grass

#25. The basket of remembrance has three sides; one is open, can it tilt and spill out?

Elizabeth Alexander

#26. The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

Alexander MacLaren

#27. Of course you can. It's a woman's prerogative. We get our way. Why else would god give us pussies if we weren't supposed to use them to control men? It's in the Chick Bible.

Celia Kyle

#28. Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a Christian club.

Walter Kasper

#29. For no one really knows what color is, where it is, even whether it is. (Can it die? Does it have a heart?) Think of a honeybee, for instance, flying into the folds of a poppy: it sees a gaping violet mouth, where we see an orange flower and assume that it's orange, that we're normal. 39.

Maggie Nelson

#30. In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

Sun Tzu

#31. Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?

Elisabeth Elliot

#32. Put it on. Look as good as you can. It's our ticket in." Maybe he did have clubbing in mind.
"You're not going to go home with some drunken college girl, are you?"
"What?"
"Never mind.

Susan Ee

#33. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? Cosmic

Albert Einstein

#34. It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

Terry Eagleton

#35. When the soul is consciously awakened can it comprehend the acquiescence of Muhammad, the unshakable foundation of Abraham and the very nature of Christ, equating the Aleph in the sealed Universe - As The Soul Speaks

AainaA-Ridtz

#36. I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

Laura Marling

#37. Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

James Madison

#38. How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

Pope Benedict XVI

#39. No scale to balance, what's in my heart.
No numbers to measure, nor even to chart.
This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds.
For only through time, can it's value be found.

Robert M. Hensel

#40. If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution?

Malcolm Gladwell

#41. It is understood that inside even the most innocent of beings slumbers a beast. This beast, with proper coaxing can be released. But can it be controlled?

Inger Iversen

#42. Right now is the time for you to visualize and create your future. Make it as healthy and bright and joyful as you can. It's your life, and you're going to live it.

Louise Hay

#43. When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story.

Mooji

#44. The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.

May Swenson

#45. Can it, elf, or I will crush your summer fruit into a nice dinner wine." He

Kate Danley

#46. Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only four starred Pussy. The super Pussy of all old Pussies...

Agatha Christie

#47. It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

Octavio Paz

#48. The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

Alan Watts

#49. Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

Jeannine Garsee

#50. I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Ann Bancroft

#51. Dave? This is John. Your pimp says bring the heroin shipment tonight, or he'll be forced to stick you. meet him where we buried the Korean whore. The one without the goatee."
That was code. It meant "Come to my place as soon as you can, it's important.

David Wong

#52. Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?

Linda Colley

#53. Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Lu Xun

#54. No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Emma Goldman

#55. The finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself.

D.T. Suzuki

#56. Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

Rita Dove

#57. Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.

John Campbell Shairp

#58. All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That's the nature of being a producer.

Walter Hill

#59. The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.

Robert Southwell

#60. Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.

Laozi

#61. The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.
Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#62. Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

Philip Jose Farmer

#63. Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Michel Foucault

#64. If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.

Robert Patrick

#65. Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.

Peter Kreeft

#66. What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

Winston Churchill

#67. If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

Gardiner Spring

#68. I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

Gren Wells

#69. How can it surprise any of you that loves could break the curse? You, whose very genetic makeup forces you to love so deeply that you can't even survive without your mate? It's no coincidence that the saying is 'love conquers all'. It's a tale as old as time.

Quinn Loftis

#70. Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

Enza Vita

#71. What happens to the space that two people occupied together? How can it just disappear? Why can't it just become something else?

Melissa Broder

#72. If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#73. The human spirit cannot be seen; neither can it be denied.

Toni Sorenson

#74. We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?

Arthur C. Clarke

#75. Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#76. How can it be all right?" "Everything happens for a reason. It was meant to be this way; this day, this reason, this cause, this way.

Shelly Crane

#77. This is where it matters the most. This is where lives are made, in these moments when you can choose whether or not to say "I Can't" or "I Can." It is a choice that will either make or break you for life.

Jillian Michaels

#78. This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

Barack Obama

#79. Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

Edward Bond

#80. I also know that I have so many other things I should be focusing on right now, but it's one night. One drink. What harm can it do? He

Colleen Hoover

#81. We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?

Charlie Sheen

#82. This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?

Peter S. Beagle

#83. How can it not be right when it's done with love?

Susan Atkins

#84. How can it be hard and easy at the same time?" asked Omar.
"It's like a really tall wall," said Anja. "It might be hard to climb, but there's no flying crocodiles to fight off while you do it.

Dan Wells

#85. One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

Zakk Wylde

#86. Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

Ilchi Lee

#87. I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#88. Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Henry David Thoreau

#89. For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?

William Shakespeare

#90. I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

#91. If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

Nancy Mitford

#92. I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

#93. How can it be that a set of shoulders, the rhythm of a stride, the shadow of a strand of hair falling on a forehead can cause the tides of the heart to ebb and to flow?

Ahdaf Soueif

#94. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Thomas Jefferson

#95. How can it hurt so much to love someone?

Tracy March

#96. Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.

Vic Morrow

#97. I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

Karin Fossum

#98. Even if just once, the inner intent spoils towards someone, as in 'I will put him in his place', it is a statement made with God as your witness, so how can it go to waste? There is no problem if the inner intent does not spoil. Everything will become silent. Everything will stop.

Dada Bhagwan

#99. Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss?

Daniel Defoe

#100. True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

Torquato Tasso