Cannot Quotes (page 173)

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• leaving
• manly
• tree

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree. Swami Vivekananda

• success
• failure
• giving

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure- which is: try to please everybody. Herbert Bayard Swope

• you
• faking
• fur

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur Karl Lagerfeld

• leaving
• time
• little

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Ernest Hemingway

• reading
• end
• perhaps

How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do. Harold Bloom

• mind
• mindfulness
• element

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. Johannes Kepler

• book
• reading
• evening

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• science
• universe
• god

As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God. And then after a while, we explain it, and so that's no longer God's realm. Carl Sagan

• god
• work
• thoughts

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being? Edgar Allan Poe

• writing
• write
• conceived

I cannot conceive not writing. Terry Prachett

• parents
• children
• help

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Mitch Albom

• life
• house
• distressed

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. Rose Macaulay

• tears
• men
• saying

Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus Alfred Lord Tennyson

• fearless
• consistency
• political

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. George Orwell

• alone
• writing
• ifs

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. Elie Wiesel