Cannot Quotes (page 182)

• 
• 
• 

• life
• heart
• my heart

All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name? andre breton Andre Breton

• devil
• die
• satan

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot d? I can die. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• love
• gold
• balance

Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals. pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighted out in the balance for gold. Oscar Wilde

• can do
• doing
• am

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. Edward Everett Hale

• little
• everything
• about

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal

• political
• believe
• promise

A Christian cannot, therefore, believe any of those who promise that if only some reform in our economic, political, or hygienic system were made, a heaven on earth would follow. This might seem to have a discouraging effect on the social worker, but it is not found in practice to discourage him. C. S. Lewis

• reality
• consequence
• consequences

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality Ayn Rand

• feeling
• world
• disappeared

I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth. Leo Tolstoy

• ironic
• brother
• men

Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on the iron bracelet which all men wear on their left wrists with their names upon it. We are twenty-one years old. We are six feet tall, and this is a burden, for there are not many men who are six feet tall. Ever have the Teachers and the Leaders pointed to us and frowned and said: "There is evil in your bones, Equality 7-2521, for your body has grown beyond the bodies of your brothers." But we cannot change our bones nor our body. Ayn Rand

• manly
• study
• world

The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces. Mary Antin

• walking
• walk away
• challenge

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse. Arthur Miller

• good
• manly
• being a man

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess

• space
• words
• small

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love Jeanette Winterson

• die
• good
• bad

The best of men cannot defend their fate: the good die early, the bad die late. Daniel Defoe

• evening
• wellness
• mother

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. George Bernard Shaw