Top 100 I Cannot Quotes
#1. I cannot but feel I have had a call from God to devote myself to help save souls in their last hour ...
I have been drawn so strongly to pray for the dying and I believe it to be a work appointed for me, perpetual prayer for the dying.
Mary Potter
#2. If there be any Gods at all, of which I am not even certain, I cannot believe they would stoop to meddle in the affairs of men. Nor will I wait upon the Gods to do what I see clearly must be done - who's to say that the Goddess cannot work through my hand as well as another.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#3. I don't care anymore, don't you understand that? I am doing what I am doing because I must do it. And when everything ends my ultimate reward is that I end with it, because I cannot stand to be a part of a creation that did what it did to you.
Matthew Head
#4. There are men, who can be turned on by a stiff breeze, but I cannot stop the wind, and it is wrong for a woman to be held responsible for a man's problems.
Emily Dixon
#6. I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are colors I cannot see. As though I have ears, but there's a range of notes I cannot hear.
Franny Billingsley
#8. By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#9. Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron.
Mary Trainor-Brigham
#10. I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me. Before
Peter S. Beagle
#11. Showing up for another says, "I see you. Your pain is known, and though I cannot make it better, I'm here and that's what matters.
Kara Tippetts
#12. What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. I cannot remember the time when I was not writing, or when I did not mean to be a writer...I was an indefatigable scribbler
L.M. Montgomery
#14. When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.
Muhammad Ali
#15. 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
#16. I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
Oswald Chambers
#17. I always choose my path right
the only problem is
I cannot figure out which path is the right one.
Aria E. Salahi
#18. I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.
Jorge Luis Borges
#19. There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.
Minette Walters
#21. I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.
David Mackay
#22. I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.
Claudia Lee
#23. I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace ... The rest is only hearsay.
Edward Abbey
#24. Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind of fallacy 'the Argument from Personal Incredulity.' Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience.
Richard Dawkins
#25. Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body ... I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.
Mark Indelicato
#27. 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
#28. I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
Gore Vidal
#29. I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty.
Bernhard Schlink
#30. The only thing I cannot predict is the future
Amit Trivedi
#31. I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.
Andrea Zuvich
#32. I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant
Samuel Beckett
#33. I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.
Robin Roberts
#34. I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
Jean Craighead George
#35. Prayer is to me now what the sucking of the milk was to me in my infancy. Although I do not always feel the same relish for it, yet I am sure I cannot live without it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#36. 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
#37. I cannot tell you anything that you don't already know, but it is known in silence.
Leonard Jacobson
#38. It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.
Pope Sixtus V
#39. I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged.
Alan Abel
#40. There isn't anything that I cannot be or do or have, and I have a huge Nonphysical staff that's ready to assist me, and I'm ready.
Esther Hicks
#41. I love the machines and I cannot allow them and the humans of Twinmortal to suffer.-Hanshin
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#42. Step beyond the scopes and limits because a narrow minded person has such boundaries of thinking "I cannot , but I must
Sunday Adelaja
#43. A short while later, as I stare down at the bodies of the six men I have just killed, I cannot help but wonder: Do I love killing? Of a certainty, I love the way my body and weapons move as one; I revel in the knowledge of where to strike for maximum impact. And of a certainty, I am good at it.
Robin LaFevers
#44. If my heart is broken, I should be thankful that I was blessed to have loved but I cannot live that wisely. That's why I cry.
Nii Parkes
#45. I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
Bill Cosby
#46. I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.
Paulo Freire
#48. Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Walter Smith
#49. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham Lincoln
#50. I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are ourselves greatly responsible for it. Indeed I believe we are at the beginning only of the art of living.
Georgiana Burne-Jones
#51. I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.
Gerald R. Ford
#52. I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.
Monica Cruz
#53. People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.
Jose Saramago
#54. And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!
Arthur Symons
#55. I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience,
James Dobson
#56. Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
Norman Mailer
#57. I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
Russell Crowe
#58. While it is not my job to educate anyone, I understand that if I don't try, I cannot expect anyone else to understand.
Amber Neko Meador
#59. You deny it all you want, but you are mine. Call it passion, call it obsession, call it whatever pleases you, but you run hot and wild in my blood, Katherine-I cannot give you up.
Brenda Joyce
#60. Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest
Ueda Akinari
#61. Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.
Groucho Marx
#62. Yes, I know this narrative is crowded with beautiful women - Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Maycott, Mrs. Lavien, Mrs. Bingham. We might form a cricket team of beautiful women. I cannot help it if they are the ones who excite my notice and so trouble myself to describe.
David Liss
#63. The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden
#64. I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.
Antonis Samaras
#65. I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.
Franklin Pierce
#66. I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.
Jim Rogers
#68. I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
Beatrix Potter
#69. Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
Thomas Browne
#70. I feel like I'm living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can't visit relatives, can't get a job, can't have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.
Candy Darling
#71. I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
Lars Von Trier
#72. I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.
Martin Luther
#73. I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
Charlotte Bronte
#74. Green pastures are before me, which yet I have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o'er me, where the dark clouds have been.
My hope I cannot measure, my path to life is free,
My Savior has my treasure, and He will walk with me.
Anna Laetitia Waring
#75. Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go ... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.
Peter Zumthor
#76. If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#77. It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
Veerappa Moily
#78. Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.
Samuel Morse
#79. I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.
Bill Etherington
#80. I speak from the heart words I have no right to say. Words that I should have never uttered to you, yet I cannot help myself. I love you and I shall love you through eternity itself.
Bertrice Small
#81. I am so fortunate to be red! I'm fiery. I'm strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted.
Orhan Pamuk
#82. My dear, everyone makes mistakes. You're forgiven, but I cannot force that forgiveness on you. It's your choice.
Paulo Coelho
#83. I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!
Jane Austen
#84. It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!
Akshay Kumar
#85. Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don't feel alive.
Joni Mitchell
#86. I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.
Tina Modotti
#87. I am never weary of being useful ... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#88. I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
Aeschylus
#89. Paul," I murmur, "call me by my name."
"You know I cannot."
"Just once. Just once I want to hear you say my name."
Paul brings his face close to mine, so close we are nearly touching. "Marguerite."
And we are lost.
Claudia Gray
#90. Then let not what I cannot have
My cheer of mind destroy.
Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,
Although a poor blind boy!
Colley Cibber
#91. I cannot understand those so-called 'normal' people who believe that a man should love only a woman, and a woman love only a man. If this were so, then it disregards completely the spirit, the personality, and the mind, and stresses the importance of the physical body.
Sarah Prager
#92. I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.
India.Arie
#93. It was a hard lesson to learn, but eventually I had to come to grips with the fact that I cannot solve everyone's problems and lead them to a happy, fulfilled life. They have to figure that out on their own.
Theo Rossi
#95. The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.
Anne Perry
#96. From this moment forward ... I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.
Lance Wubbels
#97. Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#98. I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.
Paul Simon
#99. It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.
Therese Of Lisieux
#100. The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.
Jean De La Bruyere
