Cannot Quotes (page 63)

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• passion
• moments
• beard

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• white
• wishes
• understanding

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated. Bell Hooks

• life
• heart
• demanding

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• powerful
• war
• power

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. Sophocles

• music
• night
• sleep

Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night Rumi

• believe
• hand
• arrest

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement. Alexander Herzen

• reasonableness
• beings
• founding

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument. Samuel Johnson

• work
• walking
• hope

I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I despise a hypocrite or a covenant breaker. I judge them not; God shall judge them according to their works. I am a lover even of mine enemies, for an enemy seeketh to destroy openly. I can pray for those who despitefully use and persecute me, but for all I cannot hope. Joseph Smith, Jr.

• food
• job
• adulting

You might discover that, nationwide, America's food banks are experiencing 'a torrent of need which [they] cannot meet' and that, according to a survey conducted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 67 percent of the adults requesting emergency food aid are people with jobs. Barbara Ehrenreich

• love
• life
• death

And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything. Saul Bellow

• rich
• happy
• giving

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere. That when we live no more, we may live... Anne Bradstreet

• figuring
• finally
• figure

We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out Charles Fort

• watch
• hand
• heart

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. Jodi Picoult

• fear
• passion
• manly

Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex. Jeanette Winterson

• attention
• thinking
• affection

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period). Sarah Vowell