Cannot Quotes (page 116)

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• horse
• evening
• words

Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth. Confucius

• remedies
• suggested
• cured

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. Anton Chekhov

• love
• economic
• secure

Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence Aldous Huxley

• work
• law
• waiting

And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a world that is uncreated: that is the work of no author. A world that imagination cannot thereafter alter, not in its deepest workings and its laws, but only envision in new ways; where our elder brothers and sisters, the things, suffer our childish logomantic games with them and wait for us to grow up, and know better; where we do grow up, and do know better. John Crowley

• life
• history
• causes

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. Stephen Jay Gould

• men
• may
• new

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten. John Steinbeck

• future
• youthful
• youth

One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt

• him
• kindness
• clever

I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason. It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit to have a dislike of that kind. One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Jane Austen

• where
• puts
• everything

You cannot have everything. I mean, where would you put it. Steven Wright

• joy
• evening
• imagination

those who do not sing cannot even imagine the joy of singing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• light
• path
• tries

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. Annie Dillard

• knowledge
• different
• manly

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• men
• humanity
• excellence

The Form of Government, which you admire, when its Principles are pure is admirable, indeed, it is productive of every Thing, which is great and excellent among Men. But its Principles are as easily destroyed, as human Nature is corrupted. Such a Government is only to be supported by pure Religion or Austere Morals. Public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private virtue....Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company:...I mean Hell. John Adams

• thinking
• wishes
• remembering

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them. Alice Hoffman

• consider
• design
• words

Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand. Samuel Johnson