Top 100 He Can Quotes
#1. If a guy can't even handle my words, I don't think he can handle me as a person.
Anna Bayes
#2. Her delicate brows drew together. "As a rancher, surely he knows how to ride a horse."
"He can ride just fine. He took it into his head that he could break this rangy mustang, and it broke him instead."
-Houston and Amelia
Lorraine Heath
#3. Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?
Maxim Gorky
#4. Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression ...
Leo Buscaglia
#5. They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
Kate Bush
#6. Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race!
Marisha Pessl
#7. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.
Anthony Burgess
#8. A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother's lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.
Debasish Mridha
#9. He can look harmless if he wants to. He is the consummate actor, but unless he works at it, his eyes give him away. If the eyes are the mirror to the soul, then Edward's in trouble because no one is home. He
Laurell K. Hamilton
#10. I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.
Sylvester Stallone
#11. He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.
Laozi
#12. When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".
Robert Menzies
#13. Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.
Susan Estrich
#14. When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
Robertson Davies
#15. A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.
Jonathan Swift
#16. He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
Laozi
#17. A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.
P.G. Wodehouse
#18. Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#19. My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.
Leon Panetta
#20. Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.
Robertson Davies
#21. Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
Satyajit Ray
#22. Awareness, no matter how confused it may be, develops from every act of rebellion: the sudden, dazzling perception that there is something in man with which he can identify himself, even if only for a moment.
Albert Camus
#23. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.
Alfred Binet
#25. We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.
Jihan El-Tahri
#27. You showed mercy, Kaz. You were the better man."
There she went again, seeking decency when there was none to be had. "Inej, I could only kill Pekka's son once." He pushed the door open with his cane. "He can imagine his death a thousand times.
Leigh Bardugo
#28. God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.
Katherine Howe
#29. There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation.
Alois Podhajsky
#30. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else.
Henry Cloud
#31. Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it
Jacques Attali
#32. In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#33. It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.
Maria Montessori
#34. When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#35. He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
Mickey Mantle
#36. If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.
Craig Groeschel
#37. The ruler is the first servant of the state. He is paid well so that he can maintain the dignity of his office. But he is required in return to work effectively for the well-being of the state.
Frederick II Of Hohenstaufen
#38. My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing
Leopold Fechtner
#39. The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
Douglas Engelbart
#40. Why does God permit difficulties to come to our lives? Sometimes He has to break us before He can make us. Sometimes He has to reveal to us what we're really like before He can make us into what He wants us to be.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#41. Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
William Faulkner
#42. A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.
Ludwig Von Mises
#43. At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.
Arthur Fremantle
#44. [Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#45. I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.
Jesse Duplantis
#46. He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#47. If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.
Ram Dass
#48. A traveling epic Hunkey, crossing and recrossing the country every year, south in the winter and north in the summer and only because he has no place he can stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, and keep rolling under the stars
Jack Kerouac
#49. And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body")
Cornell Woolrich
#50. I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.
Robin Roberts
#51. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. - Let each man hope & believe what he can. -
Charles Darwin
#52. Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.
Irving Stone
#54. [Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens
#55. I Ignore the unwelcome stab of disappointment. Why do I want to spend every single minute with this controlling sex god? Oh yes, I've fallen in love with him, and he can fly.
E.L. James
#56. God, you're gorgeous, I blurt out and want to die because I can't believe I said it aloud and neither can he - his smile, so huge now, he can't even get any words past it.
Jandy Nelson
#57. Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.
Tony Evans
#58. Ted Baillieu certainly has served the state very well. He has served the Liberal party extraordinarily well, and he can be very, very proud of his achievements. I am honoured and proud to say that he is not just a colleague, he is a great friend.
Denis Napthine
#59. Man is just what he thinks himself to be ... He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
Ernest Holmes
#60. How much happier is the man who owes nothing to anybody except the one he can most easily refuse, himself!
Seneca.
#61. Relationship Principle 9
Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by a woman who cares about her own pleasure as well.
Sherry Argov
#62. The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
Socrates
#63. The Vizier is a genius, truly, if he can keep peace among three hundred women. I can't do so with only one.
Loretta Chase
#64. Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society's disapproval.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#65. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry Truman
#66. What has happened to this man that he can be so full of violence and hate?
Carmen Jenner
#67. When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
Bruce Lee
#68. Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside.
Toni Morrison
#69. The devil's overriding goal is to block God's work - and if he can convince you God doesn't really love you, or that you can't fully trust Him, then he has blocked God's work in your life and achieved his goal.
Billy Graham
#70. No man can entirely separate himself in his moral life from his fellows. No matter how vigorous his individuality, he can never escape the consciousness of their standard and their judgment, and he must be swayed by it more or less, even though he denies it for awhile to himself. "Such
Richard Dallas
#71. In sorrow and in pain, still do remember your Master Jehovah; He can make things that do not matter, matter.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Francois Truffaut
#73. I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.
Paul Feig
#74. He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne
#75. The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
Melvil Dewey
#76. The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?
David Lloyd-Jones
#77. To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.
Lin Yutang
#78. How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.
Dada Bhagwan
#79. The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.
Henry Miller
#80. A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.
Walter Winchell
#81. He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.
Dawn Jayne
#82. He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
Ian McDonald
#83. The most immediate is that if you tell your partner "It's okay to ask for anything you want," it better be true. If you're not prepared to make it safe for your partner to open up to you, he won't. Because he'll feel he can't.
Franklin Veaux
#84. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
Bruce Lee
#85. He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling
Abbi Glines
#86. General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
Toussaint Louverture
#87. In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.
Mark Twain
#88. With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen
#89. Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books ...
George Washington Carver
#90. We're all that matters. Our lips touch with each word he speaks, his stare so intense that I know he can see straight through to my soul.
Rachel Harris
#91. The most important thing will be building a bench of powerhouse progressives in elected office and in the next administration. [Bernie] Sanders has an enormous spotlight that he can shine on champions that are following the Sanders path of really building from the left.
Ben Wikler
#92. Because he can't imagine a time when the heavy darkness will lift.
Joelle Charbonneau
#93. The INFP possesses strong principles, especially when it comes to morals and what he thinks is right and wrong. When his inner values are in harmony with the values of the company, then he can become a very useful member of the team.
Louise Gladstone
#94. He keeps whispering, "You're okay," and I simultaneously love him and hate him for saying that. I'm fucking not okay at all. And yet it's exactly what I most want to be: okay. He can't give that to me, but I love him for trying.
Matthew Quick
#95. If he drinks one hundred dollars a day--and he can--he's got one hundred days to drink. It's just an arithmetic operation, simple logic.
John O'Brien
#96. Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
Dallas Willard
#97. When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.
Stormie O'martian
#98. A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
Laurence Sterne
#99. If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.
David Jeremiah
#100. If he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman have one. It is a genital process, and all of its stages are intra-abdominal;
James M. Cain
