Top 100 Cannot Be Quotes
#1. The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican.
Janeane Garofalo
#2. That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot be confused.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#4. Talent can be bought and sold. Reputations can be fabricated. But true ingenuity cannot be stolen. And my cooperation is something you will never receive.
Aria Hawthorne
#5. I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
William Hazlitt
#6. What good I thought I could do, all alone, against thousands of years of mistrust and the power of a Demonlord, I cannot now imagine: but such are the dreams of youth, too gloriously stupid to realise what cannot be done.
And without those dreams, how should we ever accomplish the impossible?
Elizabeth Kerner
#7. I say there is no modern evil which cannot be justified by these ancient texts; and there is nowhere in Christendom a clergy which cannot be persuaded to cite them at the demand of ruling classes.
Upton Sinclair
#8. The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.
Mike Pence
#9. Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. You cannot be a good doctor without pity.
Axel Munthe
#11. Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
Gerry Spence
#12. Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#13. There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of all truth; how can I deny what I know?
Stephen R. Lawhead
#14. The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.
Peace Pilgrim
#15. We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.
Paula Dobriansky
#16. Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt Whitman
#17. If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
Zhuangzi
#18. One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
Jose Saramago
#20. Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
Epictetus
#21. Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. What is written with a sword cannot be erased.
Lev Grossman
#23. Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability.
Che Guevara
#24. He who sees his own truths, cannot be decieted by another.
Nikki Rowe
#25. Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.
Thomas Merton
#26. I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. (On giving up art to play chess)
Marcel Duchamp
#27. Revenge is like a ghost ... It takes over every man it touches ... Its thirst cannot be quenched ... Until the last man standing has fallen ...
Vladimir Makarov
#28. The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
Anne Rice
#29. Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
James Anthony Froude
#32. He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
Anton Chekhov
#33. A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
Charles Ives
#34. It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
Alan Dershowitz
#35. Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.
Elif Shafak
#37. A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you.
Jewel
#38. But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap
Vincent Van Gogh
#39. Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
Josh McDowell
#40. We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.
Lawrence Summers
#41. Eating disorder sufferers cannot be told to 'pull themselves together', to 'stop doing that' or to 'just eat'.
Lynn Crilly
#42. A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings ... unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible
we have it all, or we are not free.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#43. Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
Giacomo Casanova
#44. Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.
Jose Mourinho
#45. Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.
Jon Jones
#46. In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
Pope Francis
#47. Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.
(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)
Robert Southey
#48. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.
Oscar Wilde
#49. Let me be the wave. And if I cannot be the wave, let me be the rupture at the bottom. Let me be that terrible first rift in the dark.]
Lauren Groff
#51. What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!
L. Tom Perry
#52. EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.
John Barrasso
#53. Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Leo Burnett
#54. We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
Cornel West
#55. This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#56. Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
Epictetus
#57. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
Richard Dawkins
#58. We limit ourselves by thinking things can't be done. Many think peace in the world is impossible - many think that inner peace cannot be attained. It is the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!
Peace Pilgrim
#59. Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#60. Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
Martin Luther
#62. Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#63. There cannot be love without loss, just like there cannot be happiness without sadness, or light without dark.
Markus Peterson
#64. From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#65. American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#66. Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami
#67. We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.
William Grant Bangerter
#68. The kingdom of God cannot be entered into by the way of the flesh, Jesus tells us, only by the supernatural work of the new birth.
Russell D. Moore
#69. I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.
Pierce Brosnan
#70. One may deal with things without love ... but you cannot deal with men without it ... It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
Leo Tolstoy
#71. Life cannot be just a linear line to death.
Dimitri Zaik
#72. An investigation's proper course cannot be mapped in advance. It follows each piece of information forward to the next one.
Ben H. Winters
#73. Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die .
Giordano Bruno
#74. It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
Ansel Adams
#75. And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the day but cannot be touched or remembered.
Neil Gaiman
#76. One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
Ramakrishna
#77. These values are 'distinctly European' because they were thought out, articulated and refined in the part of the planet that tends to be described as 'Europe proper', and their articulation and refinement cannot be separated from the course of Europe's history.
Zygmunt Bauman
#78. Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
Winston Churchill
#79. History will not judge our endeavors
and a government cannot be selected
merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these.
John F. Kennedy
#80. The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.
Frederick Lenz
#81. It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.
Matt Chandler
#82. Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.
Sai Baba
#83. As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#84. And there still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of Love and Art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and Art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with Love.
Arthur C. Clarke
#85. He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.
Thomas A Kempis
#86. Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
Balthus
#87. They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
Sun Tzu
#88. Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
Raymond Aron
#89. Desperate people do desperate things. You cannot be one of them. You must be better.
Rachel Caine
#90. Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#91. History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much what we've forgotten as what we recall. History cannot be forgotten.
Peter Geye
#92. Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.
Arthur Lynch
#93. He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#94. Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
Alexander Hamilton
#95. It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl Jung
#96. For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.
Shakira
#97. Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#99. A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
Confucius
#100. Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.
C. G. Jung
