We Cannot Quotes (page 11)

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• bad
• saying
• conclusions

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. Alfred Adler

• time
• waste
• wasting

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. George Matthew Adams

• thoughts
• ours
• our thoughts

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. Orison Swett Marden

• moments
• running
• friendship

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. James Boswell

• universe
• look
• little

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven. Charles Darwin

• time
• crying
• saying

We cannot always cry at the right timeand who is to say which time is right? Madeleine L'Engle

• figuring
• finally
• figure

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

• your life
• power
• inspirational

We cannot know his legendary headwith eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torsois still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwisethe curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor coulda smile run through the placid hips and thighsto that dark center where procreation flared. Otherwise this stone would seem defacedbeneath the translucent cascade of the shouldersand would not glisten like a wild beast's fur: would... Rainer Maria Rilke

• alone
• god
• true

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. Wendell Berry

• hope
• soul
• culture

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. Derrick Jensen

• boys
• cheer
• take

We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; bebrisk awhile, and the longer liver take all. William Shakespeare

• him
• humanity
• proverbs

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. Chinua Achebe

• help
• humanity
• helpful

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself... Barack Obama

• saying
• cannot
• negotiate

We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable. John F. Kennedy

• job
• less
• us

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job... Emile M. Cioran