| 83 |
You can't fix stupid. |
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| 84 |
You can't judge a book by its movie. |
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| 85 |
You can't scare me. I have children. |
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| 86 |
You can't teach an old dog new math. |
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| 87 |
You can't hear everything you believe. |
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| 88 |
You can't teach a new mouse old clicks. |
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| 89 |
You can't teach an old god new tricks!. |
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| 90 |
You can't teach an old mouse new clicks. |
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| 91 |
You can tune a piano but can't tuna fish. |
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| 92 |
You can't buy beer; you can only rent it. |
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| 93 |
You can't buy love...But you can rent it. |
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| 94 |
You can't have your Kate, and Edith, too. |
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| 95 |
You can't sedate all the things you hate. |
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| 96 |
You can't fire me - Slaves have to be sold. |
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| 97 |
You can't make dill bread without dill dough. |
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| 98 |
You can't use your friends and have them too. |
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| 99 |
You can't break eggs without making an omelet. |
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| 100 |
You can't be a professor. You are making sense. |
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| 101 |
You can't duck an uzi, but you can uzi a duck!. |
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| 102 |
Religion is for people who can't handle reality. |
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| 103 |
Statistics show that statistics can't be trusted. |
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| 104 |
We can't get a volunteer army unless we draft it. |
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| 105 |
You can't milk a cow with your hands in your pants. |
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| 106 |
You can't blame a worm for not wanting to go fishing. |
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| 107 |
Courage is something you just can't be afraid to have. |
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| 108 |
You can beat a dead horse, but you can't make him drink. |
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| 109 |
You can't break even. - - The Second Law of Thermodynamics. |
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| 110 |
You can't stay young, but you can remain immature forever!. |
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| 111 |
An artist without paints can't paint unless he has a canvas. |
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| 112 |
You can't win Ôem all. Hell, you can't even *fight*
Ôem all. |
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| 113 |
You can lead a whore to Vassar, but you can't make her think. |
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| 114 |
You can't fire anyone from the post office... They fire back. |
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| 115 |
You can always tell a harvard man but you can't tell him
much. |
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| 116 |
You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of
it. |
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| 117 |
You can't break the laws of physics, but you can make them
up. |
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| 118 |
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. - Unknown |
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| 119 |
You can't idiot - proof everything, idiots are too resourceful. |
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| 120 |
You can't assume something is possible just because it happens. |
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| 121 |
Women, you can't live with them and you can't live without
them. |
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| 122 |
You can't walk in the daylight if you fly with the bats at
night. |
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| 123 |
You can't appreciate being single until after you've been
married. |
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| 124 |
You can't make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious. |
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| 125 |
Collins's Law: If you can't make a mistake, you can't make
anything. |
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| 126 |
You can't argue with a woman when she's tired...Or when she's
rested. |
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| 127 |
You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a
good school. |
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| 128 |
You can't play sick & then expect your mom to let you
go to the mall. |
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| 129 |
You can't be a figment of my imagination - I'd have done
a better job. |
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| 130 |
You can't hear it, but the universe is laughing at you behind
your back. |
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| 131 |
You can't make a baby in one month, even if you make nine
women pregnant . |
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| 132 |
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. - Leo
Rosten (1908 - ) |
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| 133 |
A formalist is a man who can't understand a theory unless
it is meaningless. |
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| 134 |
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
- Dorothy Parker. |
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| 135 |
You can't kiss a girl unexpectedly - - only sooner than she
thought you would. |
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| 136 |
If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop
them - Yogi Berra. |
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| 137 |
Naeser's Law: You can make it foolproof, but you can't make
it damnfoolproof. |
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| 138 |
There are only three kinds of people: those who can count
and those who can't. |
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| 139 |
I got a garage door opener. It can't close. Just open. -
Steven Wright (1955 - ) |
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| 140 |
Money can't buy you happiness, but poverty can't buy you
anything. - Timur Sahin |
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| 141 |
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - ) |
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| 142 |
You can't believe anyone but yourself - - and don't trust
yourself too completely. |
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| 143 |
Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them
to that can't keep them. |
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| 144 |
You can't please everyone. But it is possible to make 'em
all mad at the same time. |
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| 145 |
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man
you can. - Margo Kaufman |
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| 146 |
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class
of enemy. - Spike Milligan |
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| 147 |
You can lead a gift horse to water, but you can't look him
in the mouth when he drinks. |
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| 148 |
When a woman behaves like a man, why can't she behave like
a nice man? - Dame Edith Evans |
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| 149 |
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't
tell the truth without lying. |
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| 150 |
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957) |
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| 151 |
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't
help himself. - Henry Morgan |
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| 152 |
You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but
you can't pick your friend's nose. |
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| 153 |
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't
imagine the smell. - Robert Byrne |
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| 154 |
If studidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get
us out? - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) |
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| 155 |
Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic
surgery. - Joan Rivers (1935 - ) |
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| 156 |
You can't get anything worthwhile done without raising a
sweat. - - The First Law of Thermodynamics. |
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| 157 |
You can't win the game, and you are not allowed to stop playing.
- - The Third Law of Thermodynamics. |
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| 158 |
Women! Ya can't live with 'em and ya can't get 'em to wear
skimpy little Nazi outfits. - Emo Phillips |
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| 159 |
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge
to conquer Poland. - Woody Allen (1935 - ) |
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| 160 |
In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with
words in the proper order then why can't he? |
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| 161 |
A "Frisbeterian" believes that when you die, your
soul goes up on the roof, and you can't get it back down. |
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| 162 |
The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in
the middle of the night and get a Slurpee. - Tellis Frank |
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| 163 |
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the
curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) |
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| 164 |
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write
a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. - Fred
Allen (1894 - 1956) |
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| 165 |
Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened,
so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody
either?' - Rodney Dangerfield |
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| 166 |
You'd better beat it. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't
get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you
can leave in a minute and a huff. - Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) |
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| 167 |
I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young
people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema.
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new
exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. - George Burns (1896
- 1996) |
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| 168 |
Strange how the older generations can't program a VCR if
their life depended on it, but they managed to operate the climate
contol system of their 1958 Ramblers, which consisted of six
unmarked knobs, one labeled "AirFloMatic" in unreadable
cursive script, and four levers underneath the dash, which you
had to turn, then pull. - Dan Tasman |
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| 222 |
You can't stop rock & roll |
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| 223 |
Art can't hurt you. - Fred Babb |
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| 224 |
Knowledge is wealth that can't be stolen. |
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| 225 |
A good thing can't be cruel. - Charles Dickens |
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| 226 |
You can't fool all of the people all of the time. |
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| 227 |
Weak people cannot be sincere. - Le Rochefoucauld |
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| 228 |
You can't legislate against rumor. - Johann Nestroy |
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| 229 |
Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers |
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| 230 |
An artist cannot do anything slovenly. - Jane Austen |
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| 231 |
Time heals what reason cannot. - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| 232 |
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. - Joe Walsh |
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| 233 |
You can't teach a crab to walk straight - - Aristophanes |
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| 234 |
You can cut off a dog's tail, but you can't sew it back. |
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| 235 |
I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. - Margaret Trudeau |
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| 236 |
Believing where we cannot prove. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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| 237 |
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. - Bible, Matthew vi. 24. |
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| 238 |
You can't kill time without injuring eternity - - Thoreau |
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| 239 |
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. - Dorothy Parker |
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| 240 |
You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular. |
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| 241 |
You can not gain peace by avoiding life. - Virginia Woolf |
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| 242 |
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. - Unknown |
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| 243 |
We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try. - Tom Clancy |
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| 244 |
You can't guard against the arbitrary. - - Borkowski's Law |
|
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| 245 |
You can't compile a wit out of two half - wits. - Joe Orton |
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| 246 |
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) |
|
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| 247 |
You can't organize clutter. - Marla Cilley, www.flylady.net |
|
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| 248 |
Water, taken in moderation, can't hurt anybody. - Mark Twain |
|
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| 249 |
You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate. |
|
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| 250 |
You can't trust anybody with power. - Newt (Newton) Gingrich |
|
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| 251 |
I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise. - W.C. Fields |
|
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| 252 |
Even God cannot change the past. - Agathon (448 BC - 400
BC) |
|
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| 253 |
I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) |
|
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| 254 |
Can't have everything, where would you put it? - Steven Wright |
|
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| 255 |
You can fake nice, but you can't fake smart. - Mark T. Shirey |
|
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| 256 |
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. - Jerome Blattner |
|
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| 257 |
The body says what words cannot. - Martha Graham (1894 -
1991) |
|
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| 258 |
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death. - T. S.
Elliot |
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| 259 |
I can't take a well - tanned person seriously. - Cleveland
Amory |
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| 260 |
Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. - Leo
Rosten |
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| 261 |
You can't create experience. You must undergo it. - Albert
Camus |
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| 262 |
You can't die for god if you can't kill for god. - - David
Koresh |
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| 263 |
Human kind cannot bear much reality. - T. S. Eliot (1888
- 1965) |
|
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| 264 |
You can't do wrong without suffering wrong. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
|
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| 265 |
You can't hit what you can't see. - John Francis Daley (Baseball) |
|
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| 266 |
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? - Phyllis
Diller |
|
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| 267 |
Never speaks a word, can't be wrong. - Jack Kerouac (1922
- 1969) |
|
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| 268 |
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream. - Oscar
Wilde |
|
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| 269 |
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. - William Tecumseh
Sherman |
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| 270 |
If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out. - Louis Armstrong |
|
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| 271 |
You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do. -
Liz Smith |
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| 272 |
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford |
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| 273 |
You can't make money by betting on all the horses. - Mark
T. Shirey |
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| 274 |
I love people, it's mankind I can't stand. - Charles Schulz,
Peanuts |
|
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| 275 |
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve
Wozniak |
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| 276 |
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in - -
Arlo Guthrie |
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| 277 |
I can't mate in captivity. - Gloria Steinem on why she never
married |
|
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| 278 |
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
- Unknown |
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| 279 |
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
- Quintilian |
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| 280 |
A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not. - Lady
Troubridge |
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| 281 |
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. - - Jay
Leno (1950) |
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| 282 |
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. - Publilius Syrus
(~100 BC) |
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| 283 |
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. - Helen Keller
(1880 - 1968) |
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| 284 |
What you cannot enforce, do not command. - Sophocles (496
BC - 406 BC) |
|
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| 285 |
You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him.
- Steve Biko |
|
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| 286 |
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose. - Benjamin
Lipson |
|
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| 287 |
You can't simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. - Albert
Einstein |
|
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| 288 |
Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which.
- Unknown |
|
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| 289 |
You can not perceive beauty but with a serene mind. -Henry
David Thoreau |
|
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| 290 |
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. - Publilius
Syrus (~100 BC) |
|
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| 291 |
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
- Author Unknown |
|
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| 292 |
You cannot compile a wit out of two half - wits. - Joe Orton
(1933 - 1967) |
|
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| 293 |
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz |
|
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| 294 |
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
- Mary H. Waldrip |
|
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| 295 |
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- George Burns |
|
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| 296 |
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
- Rita Mae Brown |
|
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| 297 |
Why can't I be different and original, like everybody else?
- Viv Stanshall |
|
|
| 298 |
You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts
losing. ..Baseball |
|
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| 299 |
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
- Kenneth Tynan |
|
|
| 300 |
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries |
|
|
| 301 |
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. - Charles M. Schulz
(1922 - 2000) |
|
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| 302 |
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. - Cecil B. DeMille
(1881 - 1959) |
|
|
| 303 |
Human beings cannot stand too much reality. - Thomas S. Eliot,
Four Quartets |
|
|
| 304 |
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
- John Galsworthy |
|
|
| 305 |
You can't fix a broken heart by pretending it's not broken.
- Penn and Teller |
|
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| 306 |
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden |
|
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| 307 |
Anything that is designed to do more than one thing can't
do any of them well |
|
|
| 308 |
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. - W. H.
Auden (1907 - 1973) |
|
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| 309 |
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar
Wilde (1854 - 1900) |
|
|
| 310 |
I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.
- James Gould Cozzens |
|
|
| 311 |
So I can't live either without you or with you. - Ovid (43
BC - 17 AD), Amores |
|
|
| 312 |
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. - Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790) |
|
|
| 313 |
You cannot fix a broken heart by pretending it's not broken.
- Penn and Teller |
|
|
| 314 |
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear
it. - Thomas Beecham |
|
|
| 315 |
You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created
it. - Albert Einstein |
|
|
| 316 |
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. - Michael
Jordan (1963 - ) |
|
|
| 317 |
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -
Mae West (1892 - 1980) |
|
|
| 318 |
There's no fool like an old fool - - - you can't beat experience.
- Jacob Braude |
|
|
| 319 |
One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter
one ear. - Leone Levi |
|
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| 320 |
The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform.
- Alfred Kinsey |
|
|
| 321 |
You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything.
- Robert Killinger |
|
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| 322 |
You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
- - Edward de Bono |
|
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| 323 |
You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow
it up. - - George Carlin |
|
|
| 324 |
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark
Twain (1835 - 1910) |
|
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| 325 |
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality
is. - Robert Pirsig |
|
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| 326 |
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
- Confucius Analects |
|
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| 327 |
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please
others. - Unknown |
|
|
| 328 |
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803 - 1882) |
|
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| 329 |
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- - Booker T. Washington |
|
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| 330 |
I you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot
down. - Dave Weinbaum |
|
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| 331 |
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable
wind. - Leon Tec, M.D. |
|
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| 332 |
Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must
look up. - Samuel Smiles |
|
|
| 333 |
That cannot be safe which is not honourable. - Cornelius
Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD) |
|
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| 334 |
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. - Albert
Camus (1913 - 1960) |
|
|
| 335 |
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat
it. - George Santayana |
|
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| 336 |
You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) |
|
|
| 337 |
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with
a club. - Jack London |
|
|
| 338 |
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. -
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) |
|
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| 339 |
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) |
|
|
| 340 |
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud
reality. -Hermann Weyl |
|
|
| 341 |
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. - Alexander
Pope (1688 - 1744) |
|
|
| 342 |
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he can't make
him drink. - John Heywood |
|
|
| 343 |
You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it
up. - - Richard Nixon, 1952 |
|
|
| 344 |
You can't stand anywhere in the universe that is outside
of yourself. - Deepak Chopra |
|
|
| 345 |
You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god.
- Hirohito, Emporer of Japan |
|
|
| 346 |
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) |
|
|
| 347 |
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you
cannot do. - Walter Bagehot |
|
|
| 348 |
You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading
it today. - Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
| 349 |
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside
of yourself. - Deepak Chopra |
|
|
| 350 |
As long as you don't try new things, you can't learn new
things. - H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
|
|
| 351 |
You can't truly listen to anyone and do anything else at
the same time. - M. Scott Peck |
|
|
| 352 |
The French are just useless. They can't organize a piss -
up in a brewery. - Elton John |
|
|
| 353 |
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) |
|
|
| 354 |
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. - Soren
Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) |
|
|
| 355 |
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can
see the light. - Author Unknown |
|
|
| 356 |
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas (1948 - ) |
|
|
| 357 |
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort
in it. - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) |
|
|
| 358 |
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at
the same time. - M. Scott Peck |
|
|
| 359 |
You can't drown your troubles, not the real ones, because
if they are real, they can swim |
|
|
| 360 |
I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards
ferrets. - Graham Chapman |
|
|
| 361 |
No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.
- Sean O'Casey (1880 - 1964) |
|
|
| 362 |
We cannot defend liberty abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965) |
|
|
| 363 |
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. -
Dolly Parton or Bertha Calloway |
|
|
| 364 |
Any man who hates dogs and loves whiskey can't be all bad.
- W.C. Fields, after Leo Rosten |
|
|
| 365 |
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle (1908 - 2002) |
|
|
| 366 |
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" |
|
|
| 367 |
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) |
|
|
| 368 |
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant
intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen |
|
|
| 369 |
We can't swing up on a rope that is attached only to our
own belt. - William Ernest Hocking |
|
|
| 370 |
The biggest difference between time and space is that you
can't reuse time. - Merrick Furst |
|
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| 371 |
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for
them. - Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) |
|
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| 372 |
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself
one. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
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| 373 |
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change
the subject. - Winston Churchill |
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| 374 |
Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've
been taking any longer. - The Lion |
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| 375 |
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's
a whisper. - Barry Neil Kaufman |
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| 376 |
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) |
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| 377 |
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. - Francois
de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) |
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| 378 |
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already
full. - Henry Kissinger (1923 - ) |
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| 379 |
There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks
he can! - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) |
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| 380 |
Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot
be hid. - Bible, Matthew v. 14. |
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| 381 |
We can't really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -
Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others |
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| 382 |
You can't say civilization don't advance... In every war
they kill you a new way. Will Rogers |
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| 383 |
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) |
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| 384 |
You cannot step twice into the same river. - Heraclitus (540
BC - 480 BC), In Plato, Cratylus |
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| 385 |
You can't slander human nature; it is worse than words can
paint it. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
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| 386 |
You have to have at least one pervert per show or you can't
survive out there. - Phil Donahue |
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| 387 |
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull
a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez |
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| 388 |
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower
and grow without it. - Jess Lair |
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| 389 |
You cannot conceive the many without the one. - Plato (427
BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Parmenides |
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| 390 |
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything
at the same time. - Oprah Winfrey |
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| 391 |
You can't teach a man anything; you can only help him find
it within himself. - Galileo Galilei |
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| 392 |
You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit
on it for very long. - - Boris Yeltsin |
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| 393 |
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC) |
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| 394 |
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) |
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| 395 |
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word
you first thought of. - Burt Bacharach |
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| 396 |
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't
be swept off your own. - Clarence Day |
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| 397 |
I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have
fun. - Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005 |
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| 398 |
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles |
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| 399 |
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out
of focus. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
|
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| 400 |
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you
can't help it. - Leo Rosten (1908 - ) |
|
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| 401 |
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting
what you have. - Kathleen A. Sutton |
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| 402 |
He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be
great. -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) |
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| 403 |
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that
I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso |
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| 404 |
If a man who cannot count finds a four - leaf clover, is
he entitled to happiness? - Stanislaw Lec |
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| 405 |
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who
is glad cannot weep. - Selma Lagerloef |
|
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| 406 |
The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather
a combination - Daniel Fitzpatrick |
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| 407 |
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you
can. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) |
|
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| 408 |
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be
done, and why. Then do it. - Lazarus Long |
|
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| 409 |
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but
they can't fool the neighbors. - E W Howe |
|
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| 410 |
That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed
once, prove accurst. - Robert Browning |
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| 411 |
I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!
- Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons |
|
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| 412 |
i can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person
then. - Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) |
|
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| 413 |
If we can't find something pleasant, we will at least find
something new. - Voltaire (1694 - 1778) |
|
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| 414 |
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling
in love. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
|
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| 415 |
If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. - Anthony
Burgess (1917 - 1993), A Clockwork Orange |
|
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| 416 |
Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called
a dignified performance. - Helen Lawrenson |
|
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| 417 |
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without
fully revealing your character. - Unknown |
|
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| 418 |
I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to
do as to quarrel with me. - Joseph Conrad |
|
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| 419 |
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the
time. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) |
|
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| 420 |
Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing
it. - Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) |
|
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| 421 |
When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. - Anthony
Burgess (1917 - 1993), A Clockwork Orange |
|
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| 422 |
The only one who can tell you "you can't" is you.
And you don't have to listen. - Nike advertisement |
|
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| 423 |
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. - Robert
J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God" |
|
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| 424 |
You can't do a kindness too soon, for you never know how
soon it will be too late. - R Waldo Emerson |
|
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| 425 |
I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and
high delight. - J. D. Salinger (1919 - ) |
|
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| 426 |
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha |
|
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| 427 |
He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be
a pacifist. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
|
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| 428 |
I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced. - Edith Frank,
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl |
|
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| 429 |
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero" |
|
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| 430 |
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch
paper cannot be understood. - Mark Ardis |
|
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| 431 |
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of
the other. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma |
|
|
| 432 |
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading
it today. - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) |
|
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| 433 |
Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful
President. - William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton |
|
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| 434 |
That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say "No"
in any of them. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) |
|
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| 435 |
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged
bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes |
|
|
| 436 |
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be
touched by exterior attacks. - Vernon Howard |
|
|
| 437 |
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer
all questions about them. - Jeremy Collier |
|
|
| 438 |
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what
you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) |
|
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| 439 |
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. -
Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003 |
|
|
| 440 |
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because
they can't understand it. - Harry Houdini |
|
|
| 441 |
Good design can't fix broken business models. - Jeffrey Veen,
Designing the Friendly Skies, 06 - 21 - 06 |
|
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| 442 |
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the
outward semblance of virtue. - Dinesh DÕSouza |
|
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| 443 |
Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing
what you can do. - Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989) |
|
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| 444 |
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect
an angel to look out. - Arthur Schoenhauer |
|
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| 445 |
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer
to the top yourself. - H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
|
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| 446 |
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to
see what I'll come up with next. - Dolly Parton |
|
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| 447 |
Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he
did not know how to tell them. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
|
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| 448 |
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
|
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| 449 |
The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who
cannot fly. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) |
|
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| 450 |
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking
without facts. - John Dewey (1859 - 1952) |
|
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| 451 |
What ever lives obeys . . . he who cannot obey himself is
commanded. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) |
|
|
| 452 |
You can buy a pretty good dog with a lot of money, but you
can't buy the wag of its tail. - Josh Billings |
|
|
| 453 |
Any man who hates dogs and children can't be all bad. - popularly,
but falsely, attributed to W.C. Fields |
|
|
| 454 |
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into
thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates (1955 - ) |
|
|
| 455 |
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use
them that counts. - Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ) |
|
|
| 456 |
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot
save the few who are rich. - John F Kennedy |
|
|
| 457 |
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach
his own family. - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) |
|
|
| 458 |
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of
your own imagination. - Stephen King (1947 - ) |
|
|
| 459 |
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how
soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
|
| 460 |
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond - studded
wheelchair. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) |
|
|
| 461 |
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean
or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine (1879 - 1951) |
|
|
| 462 |
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our
own belt. - William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966) |
|
|
| 463 |
The only person you should ever compete with is yourself.
You can't hope for a fairer match. - Todd Ruthman |
|
|
| 464 |
Social AimsSometimes it is more important to discover what
one cannot do, than what one can do. - Lin Yutang |
|
|
| 465 |
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as
a life unlived. - Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958) |
|
|
| 466 |
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can
be at peace unless he has his freedom. - Malcolm X |
|
|
| 467 |
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), Juno and the Peacock |
|
|
| 468 |
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself
through the eyes of others. - Ellen DeGeneres |
|
|
| 469 |
War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's
advantage. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) |
|
|
| 470 |
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt
you, but your friends will kill you. - Ann Richards |
|
|
| 471 |
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few
nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998) |
|
|
| 472 |
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you
can not remain still. -Patricia Russell - McCloud |
|
|
| 473 |
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - but one cannot eternally
live in a cradle. - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky |
|
|
| 474 |
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which
he must pass himself. - George Herbert (1593 - 1633) |
|
|
| 475 |
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Dog in the Manger |
|
|
| 476 |
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering
is too precious to be shared. - Edward Dahlberg |
|
|
| 477 |
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find
it within himself. - Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) |
|
|
| 478 |
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base
and keep your foot on first base. - Frederick Wilcox |
|
|
| 479 |
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands
but you can't tear the toilet paper. - Billy Wilder |
|
|
| 480 |
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only
had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore |
|
|
| 481 |
He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him
in return. - Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics |
|
|
| 482 |
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live
without a spiritual life. - Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC) |
|
|
| 483 |
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar. - Donald Foster |
|
|
| 484 |
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as
well as the earth! - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) |
|
|
| 485 |
A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in
five minutes. - Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality |
|
|
| 486 |
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been
in danger. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) |
|
|
| 487 |
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you
cannot understand them. - Anatole France (1844 - 1924) |
|
|
| 488 |
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured
by what is right with America. - Bill Clinton (1946 - ) |
|
|
| 489 |
Humor, you can't exist without it. You have to be able to
laugh at yourself. Otherwise you suffer. - Kirk Douglas |
|
|
| 490 |
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk
to a woman? Hell no! - Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005) |
|
|
| 491 |
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over
the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
|
|
| 492 |
Woe to those who can't see the power of irrational logic.
- Maritza Campos, College Roomies From Hell!!! Webcomic |
|
|
| 493 |
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not
satisfy one friend. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) |
|
|
| 494 |
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell
it about other people. - Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) |
|
|
| 495 |
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot
keep it from themselves. - James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) |
|
|
| 496 |
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in
it. - Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), December 13, 1963 |
|
|
| 497 |
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody
does the fake closeness so well. - Carrie Fisher |
|
|
| 498 |
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a
satire. All you're doing is recording it. - Art Buchwald |
|
|
| 499 |
No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out,
you didn't want to know anyway... : - ) - Larry Wall |
|
|
| 500 |
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed
in words. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) |
|
|
| 501 |
He whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster! -
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra |
|
|
| 502 |
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -
Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912 |
|
|
| 503 |
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for
someone who will never be able to repay you. - John Wooden |
|
|
| 504 |
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who
can you laugh at? - Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court" |
|
|
| 505 |
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot
exist without government. - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) |
|
|
| 506 |
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
and he who dares not is a slave. - Sir William Drummond |
|
|
| 507 |
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we
are with and serve those to be led. - Spencer W. Kimball |
|
|
| 508 |
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper
guide, cannot attain to virtue. - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) |
|
|
| 509 |
We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless
we are ready to die for it. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) |
|
|
| 510 |
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer
and forge yourself one. - James A. Froude (1818 - 1894) |
|
|
| 511 |
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. -
William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909 |
|
|
| 512 |
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but
you can do something about its width and depth. - Evan Esar |
|
|
| 513 |
You can't just up and convert a whaling ship into a deep
- sea trawler overnight. - J. Jacques, Questionable Content |
|
|
| 514 |
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage (1912 - 1992) |
|
|
| 515 |
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for
my twin sister. - Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby) |
|
|
| 516 |
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes,
but they never break. - Marie de Rabutin - Chantal |
|
|
| 517 |
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that
which cannot be put into words. - Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) |
|
|
| 518 |
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people
who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa |
|
|
| 519 |
I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But
I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) |
|
|
| 520 |
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing,
you're right. - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), (attributed) |
|
|
| 521 |
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not
expect an apostle to peer out. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
|
|
| 522 |
There isÉnothing to suggest that mothering cannot
be shared by several people. - H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May
2003 |
|
|
| 523 |
A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him,
but he can keep them from being right about it. - Unknown |
|
|
| 524 |
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity
to not know what can't be done. - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) |
|
|
| 525 |
And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
|
|
| 526 |
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot
attain it in anything. - Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863) |
|
|
| 527 |
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another
in the current of his discourse. - John Locke (1632 - 1704) |
|
|
| 528 |
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation
does not liberate, it oppresses. - Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) |
|
|
| 529 |
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey. - Robert
E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Lee to students at washington college |
|
|
| 530 |
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have
everything. A choice is all that is left him. - H. Mathews |
|
|
| 531 |
Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself,
scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. - Mary O'Hara |
|
|
| 532 |
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he
makes gods by the dozens. - Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) |
|
|
| 533 |
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should
find the time in my face. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) |
|
|
| 534 |
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You
can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George |
|
|
| 535 |
France is the only country where the money falls apart and
you can't tear the toilet paper. - Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002) |
|
|
| 536 |
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), quoted by Susan Litwin in 'TV Guide' |
|
|
| 537 |
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined,
about living superior to the herd - instinct. - Author Unknown |
|
|
| 538 |
You can't be really first - rate at your work if your work
is all you are. - Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life |
|
|
| 539 |
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever
do Evil, that Good may come of it. - William Penn (1644 - 1718) |
|
|
| 540 |
A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a
female. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime |
|
|
| 541 |
The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where
they will strike till they have fallen - Jean Baptiste Lacoraire |
|
|
| 542 |
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband
is unworthy of the name of wife. - Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) |
|
|
| 543 |
You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't
love everyone. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog |
|
|
| 544 |
Just because it's only 'stuff' doesn't mean I can't appreciate
it while I have it. - Starline X. Hodge, Candi, 12 - 30 - 05 |
|
|
| 545 |
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - -
if you don't play, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988) |
|
|
| 546 |
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation
of those whom we cannot resemble. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) |
|
|
| 547 |
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive
each other's little failings. - Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696) |
|
|
| 548 |
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive
those whom we bore. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) |
|
|
| 549 |
How do you like that guy? Can't run six balls and he's President
of the United States. - Pool hustler Johnny Irish on Nixon |
|
|
| 550 |
It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're
in front of you in the supermarket express lane. - M. Grundler |
|
|
| 551 |
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I
ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December
2003 |
|
|
| 552 |
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's
as simple as that. - Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February
2003 |
|
|
| 553 |
It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye; Then it's
just fun you can't see. - James Hetfield, Lead Singer, Metallica |
|
|
| 554 |
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave
for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. - Unknown |
|
|
| 555 |
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't
accept your imperfections, that's their fault. - Dr. David M.
Burns |
|
|
| 556 |
Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes
casts them where they can't be seen. - Stephen Hawking (1942
- ) |
|
|
| 557 |
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi
(1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982 |
|
|
| 558 |
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath
wouldn't help, just a little bit. - Susan Glasee, The Visioning,
1911 |
|
|
| 559 |
Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together
that they can't see anything wrong with each other. - Rene' Yasenek |
|
|
| 560 |
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out
getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803
- 1882) |
|
|
| 561 |
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good
life enables us to disregard them. - Cato the Elder (234 BC -
149 BC) |
|
|
| 562 |
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for
someone who will never be able to repay you. - John Wooden (1910
- ) |
|
|
| 563 |
BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he
can't find you. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary |
|
|
| 564 |
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just
wish that He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa (1910 -
1997) |
|
|
| 565 |
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to
success. - Michael Flatley, (Lord of the Dance) quoted by Eric
Celeste |
|
|
| 566 |
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because
reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss (1904
- 1991) |
|
|
| 567 |
There used to be certain words you couldn't say in front
of a girl. Now, you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.' -
Tom Lehrer |
|
|
| 568 |
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my
neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. - Hortense
Calisher |
|
|
| 569 |
I don't want people to kiss my ass, I just want to get to
a point where they can't kick it. - Michael J. Fox (1961 - ),
Lucky Man |
|
|
| 570 |
There's nothing so wrong that it can't be easily fixed or
easily ignored. I just let things roll off. - Clay Aiken, Rolling
Stone |
|
|
| 571 |
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things
we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. - Adolph
Monod |
|
|
| 572 |
There are, in the affairs of men and nations, inexorable
tides from which they cannot remain aloof. - Louis L'Amour (1908
- 1988) |
|
|
| 573 |
Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are
fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - George Gordon Noel
Byron |
|
|
| 574 |
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can
build our youth for the future. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882
- 1945) |
|
|
| 575 |
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people
who can understand it. - Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the
Netherlands |
|
|
| 576 |
Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another
person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles
Dickens |
|
|
| 577 |
You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money
for wars, but can't feed the poor. - Tupac Shakur, Keep Ya Head
Up (song) |
|
|
| 578 |
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist
without some lawful recreation. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 -
1616) |
|
|
| 579 |
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot
appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi
(1869 - 1948) |
|
|
| 580 |
There's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to
a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple. -
Chuck Sigars |
|
|
| 581 |
Happiness cannot be found - - it must be created anew everyday.
- Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins,
2002) |
|
|
| 582 |
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves
death cannot attain even that wish. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406
BC), Electra |
|
|
| 583 |
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes;
for who so firm that cannot be seduced. - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616) |
|
|
| 584 |
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the
living to do so for them. - Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic
Immunity, 2002 |
|
|
| 585 |
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You
cannot create experience. You must undergo it. - Albert Camus
(1913 - 1960) |
|
|
| 586 |
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you
can't have the dream without the nightmare. - Tori Amos, (American
Singer) |
|
|
| 587 |
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't
face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
- Malcolm X |
|
|
| 588 |
I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear
fools." That's strange; your mother could. - Dorothy Parker
(1893 - 1967) |
|
|
| 589 |
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't
do anything else, read all that you can. - Jane Hamilton, The
Book of Ruth |
|
|
| 590 |
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships,
or build meaning into a life that has none. - Richard M. DeVos |
|
|
| 591 |
A great frustration in life is discovering that sometimes
those who say something can't be done turn out to be right. -
Donald Simanek |
|
|
| 592 |
Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't
get in do that. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of
Being Earnest |
|
|
| 593 |
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not
reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. - Sydney Smith
(1771 - 1845) |
|
|
| 594 |
There is no nonsense so errant that it can't be made the
creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -
Bertrand Russell |
|
|
| 595 |
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything
to do to watch people who can't do anything. - Fred Allen (1894
- 1956) |
|
|
| 596 |
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly
live long enough to make them all yourself. - Sam Levenson (1911
- 1980) |
|
|
| 597 |
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Dr. Martin
Luther King |
|
|
| 598 |
He that commends me to mine own content. Commends me to the
thing I cannot get. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Comedy
of Errors |
|
|
| 599 |
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you
the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody. -
Herbert B. Swope |
|
|
| 600 |
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must
be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech, September
22, 1936 |
|
|
| 601 |
I can't think of anything to write about except families.
They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen
(1953 - ) |
|
|
| 602 |
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying?
If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? - Shantideva |
|
|
| 603 |
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are
wrong, you cannot be too conservative. - Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929 - 1968) |
|
|
| 604 |
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand
that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910) |
|
|
| 605 |
You know, you can't please all the people all the time...
and last night, all those people were at my show. - Mitch Hedberg
(1968 - 2005) |
|
|
| 606 |
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself,
because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C. S. Lewis
(1898 - 1963) |
|
|
| 607 |
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however,
if faced with courage, need not be lived again. - Maya Angelou
(1928 - ) |
|
|
| 608 |
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex
in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. - Gore
Vidal (1925 - ) |
|
|
| 609 |
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into
contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson
Mandela (1918 - ) |
|
|
| 610 |
You cannot be really first - rate at your work if your work
is all you are. - Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a
Happy Life, 2000 |
|
|
| 611 |
Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a
flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. - Alice Sebold,
The Lovely Bones |
|
|
| 612 |
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite
apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it. - Elbert Hubbard
(1856 - 1915) |
|
|
| 613 |
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot
change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950) |
|
|
| 614 |
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot
read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. -
Alvin Toffler |
|
|
| 615 |
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a
child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our
lives. - Rita Rudner |
|
|
| 616 |
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred
years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.
- Author Unknown |
|
|
| 617 |
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either
undeserved poverty or self - serving wealth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882 - 1945) |
|
|
| 618 |
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - and nobody
should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
- Elvin Stackman |
|
|
| 619 |
All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the
past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
- Dale Carnegie |
|
|
| 620 |
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice
would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. - Peter Ustinov
(1921 - 2004) |
|
|
| 621 |
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all
the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. - William
F. Buckley, Jr. |
|
|
| 622 |
A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it
cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
- Rupert Brooke |
|
|
| 623 |
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot
learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl
Kraus (1874 - 1936) |
|
|
| 624 |
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about
anything, we ought to know a little about everything. - Blaise
Pascal (1623 - 1662) |
|
|
| 625 |
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time by sitting
on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands
of time? - Bob Maowad |
|
|
| 626 |
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard
Feynman (1918 - 1988) |
|
|
| 627 |
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and
success. - Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862), taking over from Andrew
Jackson in 1837 |
|
|
| 628 |
I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All
you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to
them. - Lauren Edwards |
|
|
| 629 |
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence
his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. - Erich
Fromm (1900 - 1980) |
|
|
| 630 |
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not
believed but that he cannot believe anyone else. - George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
|
|
| 631 |
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about
a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- W. Somerset Maugham |
|
|
| 632 |
Any man who, having a child or children he can't support,
proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. - H. L.
Mencken (1880 - 1956) |
|
|
| 633 |
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none,
and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. - Samuel Johnson
(1709 - 1784) |
|
|
| 634 |
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning,
they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert
Camus (1913 - 1960) |
|
|
| 635 |
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief
is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to
believe. - Carl Sagan |
|
|
| 636 |
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in
your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen
King, "Hearts in Atlantis" |
|
|
| 637 |
I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it
can't fly very high. - Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining
to make a speech in 1908 |
|
|
| 638 |
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is,
I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. -
George Burns (1896 - 1996) |
|
|
| 639 |
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest
as long as there is one suffering creature in this world. - Madeleine
L'Engle (1918 - ) |
|
|
| 640 |
Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the while,
and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
|
| 641 |
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be
seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. - Helen
Keller (1880 - 1968) |
|
|
| 642 |
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you
do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. - Benjamin
Franklin (1706 - 1790) |
|
|
| 643 |
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less.
I cannot say one thing and mean another. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807 - 1882) |
|
|
| 644 |
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting
thought for those people who can't remember where they leave
things. - Frank Zappa |
|
|
| 645 |
I can name the newscaster on The Simpsons, but I can't name
my own congressman. And that's what makes America great. - Mark
Hoppus, (Blink - 182) |
|
|
| 646 |
We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't
scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys
me. - Jack Handey |
|
|
| 647 |
In the depths of my heart I can't help being convniced that
my dear fellow men, with few exceptions, are worthless. - Sigmund
Freud (1856 - 1939) |
|
|
| 648 |
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to
a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment
recall - Oliver Herford |
|
|
| 649 |
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then
by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent
Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) |
|
|
| 650 |
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established
that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. - Blaise
Pascal (1623 - 1662) |
|
|
| 651 |
Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and
the steps one has taken greatly influence the future. - Vincent
van Gogh (1853 - 1890) |
|
|
| 652 |
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they
can't see the problem. - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Scandal
of Father Brown (1935) |
|
|
| 653 |
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't
ask his patients what is the matter - he's got to just know.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) |
|
|
| 654 |
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says
it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick |
|
|
| 655 |
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits
beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC) |
|
|
| 656 |
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for
themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. - Abraham
Lincoln (1809 - 1865) |
|
|
| 657 |
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production
without finding food for a rambling fancy. - Jane Austen (1775
- 1817), Mansfield Park |
|
|
| 658 |
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try
to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want
something new. - Steve Jobs |
|
|
| 659 |
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy,
but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) |
|
|
| 660 |
Friendship with oneself is all - important, because without
it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) |
|
|
| 661 |
I can't pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice
with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Sir Winston Churchill |
|
|
| 662 |
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the
man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go
far wrong. - Norman Douglas |
|
|
| 663 |
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something.
As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion
to yearning. - Gail Godwin |
|
|
| 664 |
The difference between God and the historians consists above
all in the fact that God cannot alter the past. - Samuel Butler
(1835 - 1902), 1835 - 1902 |
|
|
| 665 |
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality
that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it
must be created. - Anonymous |
|
|
| 666 |
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality
without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America,
author Alexis de Tocqueville |
|
|
| 667 |
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh
and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) |
|
|
| 668 |
You can't make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs.
But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make
a crowd of men. - Max Beerbohm |
|
|
| 669 |
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't
see where it keeps its brain. - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and
The Chamber of Secrets, 1999 |
|
|
| 670 |
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied
from a recipe. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology
of Optimal Experience, 1990 |
|
|
| 671 |
Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of
three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his
mouth, hand and foot. - Leone Levi |
|
|
| 672 |
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make
a complete use of the other five. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874
- 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 |
|
|
| 673 |
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your
soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from
you. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) |
|
|
| 674 |
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going
over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see
from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut |
|
|
| 675 |
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches
or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them
either. - Gore Vidal (1925 - ) |
|
|
| 676 |
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against
his being able to deceive other people. - Mark Twain (1835 -
1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography |
|
|
| 677 |
You can't run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight
it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you
stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson |
|
|
| 678 |
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning,
and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000) |
|
|
| 679 |
You can't really expect a 22 - year - old girl to react the
same way as a man 24 years older than her. - Rachel Hunter (1968
- ), on ex - husband Rod Stewart |
|
|
| 680 |
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot
subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good,
just, and honest. - John Winthrop |
|
|
| 681 |
I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence.
I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course.
- Baldrick - Sense and Senility |
|
|
| 682 |
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too
fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. - Jane
Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park |
|
|
| 683 |
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict;
you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. - Plato (427
BC - 347 BC), in Symposium |
|
|
| 684 |
I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that
fancy store - bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.
- Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons |
|
|
| 685 |
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life.
The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what
they want. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
|
|
| 686 |
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why
do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together
for peace. - Rita Mae Brown, Bingo |
|
|
| 687 |
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern
resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500) |
|
|
| 688 |
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those
who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing
else. - Cyrus H. Curtis (1850 - 1933) |
|
|
| 689 |
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love
of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) |
|
|
| 690 |
You can't measure a man by his failures. You must know what
use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he
get out of them. - Orison Swett Marden |
|
|
| 691 |
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the
most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD) |
|
|
| 692 |
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly
try to improve on them. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The
Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 |
|
|
| 693 |
You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womanÕs
name and claim to love her. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com
Weblog, October 20, 2003 |
|
|
| 694 |
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself,
is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) |
|
|
| 695 |
Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey,
screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve
to be here. - Texas democrat Sam Rayburn |
|
|
| 696 |
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom
to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr |
|
|
| 697 |
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy
a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy
to cover up what's inside. - Kanye West |
|
|
| 698 |
Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your
duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish
to do less. - Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870) |
|
|
| 699 |
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change;
what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) |
|
|
| 700 |
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have
for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting
about it afterwards. - Patricia Moyes |
|
|
| 701 |
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say
what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away
and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon |
|
|
| 702 |
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which
he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone
has need to be forgiven. - Lord Herbert |
|
|
| 703 |
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an
axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must
somewhere rest on pure joy! - Louise Bogan |
|
|
| 704 |
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice
with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) |
|
|
| 705 |
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology
cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, womenÉ merely
adored. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband |
|
|
| 706 |
When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more,
You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which
you can see everything. - Mehmet Karagoz |
|
|
| 707 |
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac
River, the headline that afternoon would read "President
Can't Swim". - Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973) |
|
|
| 708 |
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are
generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even
seriously distress her. - Winston Churchill |
|
|
| 709 |
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't
retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more
with less energy and time. - Bernard Baruch |
|
|
| 710 |
Successful people in this world are those who get up and
look for circumstances they want. If they can't find them, they
make them. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
|
|
| 711 |
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them
to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas
a Kempis (1380 - 1471), Imitation of Christ |
|
|
| 712 |
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the
world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) |
|
|
| 713 |
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will
be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the
results of your thoughts. - Author Unknown |
|
|
| 714 |
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident
of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it
with money. It just happens along. - E.B. White |
|
|
| 715 |
I can't give you a sure - fire formula for success, but I
can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all
the time. - Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958) |
|
|
| 716 |
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service
of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down
the drain! - Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988) |
|
|
| 717 |
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position
whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the
greatest loss. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) |
|
|
| 718 |
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan.
But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must
include intimate relationships. - Harriet Lerner |
|
|
| 719 |
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but
it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) |
|
|
| 720 |
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the
liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is
abandoned. - U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson |
|
|
| 721 |
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose
a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without
temperance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) |
|
|
| 722 |
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice
or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete,
individualized, unique. - John Dewey (1859 - 1952) |
|
|
| 723 |
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to
call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. - Charles
Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990 |
|
|
| 724 |
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am
I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled
with such a deed. - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936) - |
|
|
| 725 |
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight
it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you
stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) |
|
|
| 726 |
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are
guilty if they forget what it was to be young. - J. K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003 |
|
|
| 727 |
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious
minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe,
aren't even aware of. - Ellen Goodman (1941 - ) |
|
|
| 728 |
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats
people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people
who can't fight back. - Abigail van Buren (1918 - ) |
|
|
| 729 |
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley |
|
|
| 730 |
I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these
vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. - Logan Pearsall Smith
(1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death" |
|
|
| 731 |
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that
we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little
remains that we cannot do. - Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) |
|
|
| 732 |
The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against
the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire
and sword. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) |
|
|
| 733 |
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what
use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he
get out of them. - Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924) |
|
|
| 734 |
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look
back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build
on it; it's only for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield |
|
|
| 735 |
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture
is that it is one in which nine - tenths of our intellectuals
can't read any poetry. - Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965) |
|
|
| 736 |
I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess
I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's
that I can't guess I'll toddle. - Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945) |
|
|
| 737 |
Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change
the world in one day, but we still can change some things today,
in our small way. - Michael Jackson, In Our Small Way |
|
|
| 738 |
Music - - the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world
of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot
comprehend. - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) |
|
|
| 739 |
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all
of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the
people all of the time. -Abraham Lincoln, (attributed) |
|
|
| 740 |
Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as
you can, because there was a time when you could not do things
as well as you can today. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
|
|
| 741 |
The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception
tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and
trends. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) |
|
|
| 742 |
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control
our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we
are then master of the situation. - Florence Scovel Shinn |
|
|
| 743 |
It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't
talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything
about we can discuss. - Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) |
|
|
| 744 |
New ideas pass through three periods: - It can't be done.
- It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. - I knew
it was a good idea all along! - Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ) |
|
|
| 745 |
Marquis de SadeI take the view, and always have, that if
you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you
ought to go away and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon |
|
|
| 746 |
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked,
but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. - Michael
J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake |
|
|
| 747 |
When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't
go on, hold on - - for that's just the place and the time that
the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) |
|
|
| 748 |
LOVE'S GIFT cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. - Rabindranath
Tagore (1861 - 1941), Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings
of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life. |
|
|
| 749 |
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them
with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot
give. - Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825 |
|
|
| 750 |
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is.
The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't
buy what is popular and do well. - Warren Buffett (1930 - ) |
|
|
| 751 |
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot
have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is
unstable and self - destroying. Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ) |
|
|
| 752 |
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement
they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations
when there are twelve in the room. - Ernest Dimnet |
|
|
| 753 |
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may
want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's
desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory",
1996 |
|
|
| 754 |
The people who get on in this world are the people who get
up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't
find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
|
|
| 755 |
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self
- conscious, and anything self - conscious is lousy. You can't
try to do things. You simply must do things. - Ray Bradbury |
|
|
| 756 |
Self - love is not opposed to the love of other people. You
cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing
people a favor, and vise versa. - Dr. Karl A. Menninger |
|
|
| 757 |
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in
it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one
even at the cost of your life. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) |
|
|
| 758 |
For the worst sign of all - - as I must have it for you -
- is that you can't help me. That's when a woman pities. - Henry
James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Sixth,
Chapter 2 |
|
|
| 759 |
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without
a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot
be successful or happy - Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993) |
|
|
| 760 |
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine
by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours
in the open air. - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) |
|
|
| 761 |
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity
of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially
rich and spiritually poor. - John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) |
|
|
| 762 |
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You
can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because
it feels sooo good. - Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix |
|
|
| 763 |
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order
that every man present his views without penalty there must be
spirit of tolerance in the entire population. -Albert Einstein |
|
|
| 764 |
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a
little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers
price only is that man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) |
|
|
| 765 |
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever
been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to
other people. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare
Dead?" |
|
|
| 766 |
If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable
life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they
are the foundation to build your life upon. - Alfred A. Montapert |
|
|
| 767 |
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can
find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it,
but he cannot utter or teach it. - Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962) |
|
|
| 768 |
Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten
million can't buy enough to eat. - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935),
1931, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James Loewen
(1995) |
|
|
| 769 |
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot
tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they
have no words. - Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877 |
|
|
| 770 |
We cannot view the world through another being's eyes. Love
is knowing, without a doubt, another's perception of the world
and being content with having no evidence. - Jeffrey Edwin Ross |
|
|
| 771 |
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working
and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern
himself and he will always remain a slave. - George Gurdjieff |
|
|
| 772 |
We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't
know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial.
We can't go on doing two jobs. - Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) |
|
|
| 773 |
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father,
expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He
is even infinitely above it. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) |
|
|
| 774 |
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far
as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would
like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know. - Loren Eiseley |
|
|
| 775 |
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must
do the thing which you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Rosevelt |
|
|
| 776 |
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering,
"I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off -
balance here." - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June
2003 |
|
|
| 777 |
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding
must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow
with it. - Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune (First Law of Mentat) |
|
|
| 778 |
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible
that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,'
1637 |
|
|
| 779 |
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its
pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it
or not, you cannot have one without the other. - Swami Brahnmananda |
|
|
| 780 |
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct
is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must
be his spirit. - Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac |
|
|
| 781 |
Mach - S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply
forward motion. But it has to be self - propelled. Note that
people in cars are still stressed. - Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08 -
26 - 05 |
|
|
| 782 |
Meetings are an addictive, highly self - indulgent activity
that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in
only because they cannot actually masturbate. - Alain van der
Heide |
|
|
| 783 |
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore
you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a
pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
- Tony Benn |
|
|
| 784 |
It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead
person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead. - Thurgood Marshall
(1908 - 1993), (Former Chief Justice), on President George Bush |
|
|
| 785 |
One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should
show many reflections, and the artist should not always show
the same face, or the face becomes a mask. - Yvette Gilbert,
(1865 - 1944) |
|
|
| 786 |
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience
in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do
that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) |
|
|
| 787 |
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with
tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if
they cannot find it. - Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), Jane Eyre,
1847 |
|
|
| 788 |
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to
me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember
me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!' - Ellen DeGeneres, on
Oprah Winfrey 1995 |
|
|
| 789 |
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's
feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than
a stander - by can judge of. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield
Park |
|
|
| 790 |
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's
fashions. - Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee
on Un - American Activities of the House of Representatives,
May 19, 1952 |
|
|
| 791 |
You can't be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an
airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team or
some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
- - Frank Zappa |
|
|
| 792 |
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller (1880
- 1968) |
|
|
| 793 |
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do something that I can do. - Edmund Everett
Hale |
|
|
| 794 |
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things
which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves
up when taken little by little. - Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD),
Lives |
|
|
| 795 |
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible
to imagine any technical feat that can't be achieved - if it
can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. -
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
| 796 |
You have to recognize when the right place and the right
time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty
of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. - Ellen
Metcalf |
|
|
| 797 |
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot
hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world... W. B. Yeats, the second
coming |
|
|
| 798 |
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even
that constitutes its genius - - the power of acting creatively
under laws of its own origination. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 - 1834) |
|
|
| 799 |
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles
called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless
you have been drinking. - Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming
of the Screw" |
|
|
| 800 |
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be.
What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. - The Bhagavad
Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath
Easwaran |
|
|
| 801 |
I donÕt think anyone can DO anything that would make
him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can
only be given. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog,
January 20, 2003 |
|
|
| 802 |
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or
form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only
work that truly satisfies. - Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely
Life, 1962 |
|
|
| 803 |
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and
we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of
God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
- A. J. Toynbee |
|
|
| 804 |
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it
comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say,
'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' - Ann Landers
(1918 - 2002) |
|
|
| 805 |
It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow
it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point
it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. - James Baldwin
(1924 - 1987) |
|
|
| 806 |
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking
this mad, wicked folly of ``Women's Rights.'' It is a subject
which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
- Queen Victoria |
|
|
| 807 |
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot
fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of
the fact that you cannot fake existence. - Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982),
Atlas Shrugged |
|
|
| 808 |
It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing
less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything
less than truth. - L. Ron Hubbard, The Ability Congress - Washington
D.C 1957 |
|
|
| 809 |
Chicken Soup: An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts
of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment
chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother.
- Arthur Naiman |
|
|
| 810 |
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826), Notes on the State of Virginia - denouncing the
evils of slavery |
|
|
| 811 |
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding
deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot
drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929 - 1968) |
|
|
| 812 |
Only when the last tree has been cut down. Only when the
last river has been poisoned. Only when the last fish has been
caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. -
Cree Indian Prophecy - |
|
|
| 813 |
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be
right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this
situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
- Isaac Rosenfeld |
|
|
| 814 |
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security
and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are
the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882 - 1945) |
|
|
| 815 |
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably;
an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit,
is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. - Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469 - 1527) |
|
|
| 816 |
I've had people say to me, 'Can't you be more feminine?'
I would go, 'Feminine? Why do I have to be feminine?' Does that
mean I have to put a little apron on and bake some cookies or
something? - Etta James |
|
|
| 817 |
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be
tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific
subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. - Stephen
Jay Gould (1941 - 2002) |
|
|
| 818 |
The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve
the rights of ordinary Americans... - Bill Clinton (1946 - ),
March 1, 1993 press conference in Piscataway, NJ, from Boston
Globe, 3/2/93, page 3 |
|
|
| 819 |
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its
reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles
and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. - Mark
Twain (1835 - 1910) |
|
|
| 820 |
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively
and without obvious effort something that most people cannot
do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. - Robertson
Davies, "Fifth Business" |
|
|
| 821 |
Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't
see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it - but thoughts
are the most real things in the Galaxy. - Robert A. Heinlein,
Citizen of the Galaxy |
|
|
| 822 |
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your
journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More
I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.
- Robert A. Ward |
|
|
| 823 |
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot
be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom
is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) |
|
|
| 824 |
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness
of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must
and will happen to throw a hero in her way. - Jane Austen (1775
- 1817), Northanger Abbey |
|
|
| 825 |
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty
remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that
you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. - Epictetus
(55 AD - 135 AD) |
|
|
| 826 |
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they
cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it,
and they recover it only by the protection of the law. - Charles
de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755) |
|
|
| 827 |
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to
distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All
our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. - John Henry
Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890) |
|
|
| 828 |
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I
know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For
in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
|
|
| 829 |
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source
of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe
such qualities into it. - Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Chenoeh:
"Coversations with Leto II" |
|
|
| 830 |
By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must
be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance,
the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts. - Lois McMaster
Bujold, A Civil Campaign |
|
|
| 831 |
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this:
all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed
on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in
one page. - Neil Postman |
|
|
| 832 |
But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes
from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the
same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lord Henry
- A Picture of Dorian Gray |
|
|
| 833 |
I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make
me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's
the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich. -
Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997 |
|
|
| 834 |
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you
need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You
can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable! - R. Stevens,
Diesel Sweeties, 11 - 06 - 06 |
|
|
| 835 |
He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted
to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even
of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool
and victim of their evil designs. - J. Hawes |
|
|
| 836 |
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot
make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person
who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin
(1819 - 1900), (attributed) |
|
|
| 837 |
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you.
And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath
followed by another. - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What
I Know For Sure, January 2004 |
|
|
| 838 |
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not
indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot
be destroyed by unbelief. - Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899), ÒWhat
Must We Do To Be Saved?Ó (1880) |
|
|
| 839 |
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner,
Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula
for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try
to please everybody." - Author Unknown |
|
|
| 840 |
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in
the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty
of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't
read. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
|
|
| 841 |
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with
the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have
already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you
are beyond the pain. - Bartholomew |
|
|
| 842 |
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then,
what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack
that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune |
|
|
| 843 |
Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because
of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and
stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly
of a 'friendship.' - Margaret Cho |
|
|
| 844 |
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value
it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing
that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for
it. - Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) |
|
|
| 845 |
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason,
and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you
can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at
the time; I mean joy. - Ursula K. LeGuin |
|
|
| 846 |
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born
with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other
virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous,
or honest. - Maya Angelou (1928 - ) |
|
|
| 847 |
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that
cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own
despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace
of God. - Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC) |
|
|
| 848 |
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle
wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a
key. That key is Russian national interest. - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965), Radio speech, 1939 |
|
|
| 849 |
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from
the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other
proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) |
|
|
| 850 |
An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the
idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that
this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth
it. - Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006 |
|
|
| 851 |
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the
idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best
that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If
so, we're in big trouble. - Ellen DeGeneres |
|
|
| 852 |
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against
conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do
no other. God help me. Amen. - Martin Luther (1483 - 1546), in
front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms. |
|
|
| 853 |
But why do people who are good at families have to be smug
and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is
inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?
- Hanif Kureishi, in his book, Intimacy |
|
|
| 854 |
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity
with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be
dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without
the latter. - Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754) |
|
|
| 855 |
Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), From the speech President Kennedy
was to deliver at the Dallas Trade Mart, 22 Nov 1963; he was
assassinated on his way to the Trade Mart |
|
|
| 856 |
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect
us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic
threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us
as effects. - Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) |
|
|
| 857 |
The most gifted members of the human species are at their
creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate
for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities
and talents. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) |
|
|
| 858 |
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are
just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect,
in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe
it. - Margaret Cho |
|
|
| 859 |
That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans
and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this,
what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand
this, what's wrong with him?" - Terry Pratchett |
|
|
| 860 |
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have
words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard
for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
- Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995 |
|
|
| 861 |
That little man in black over there, he says women can't
have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where
did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing
to do with Him. - Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883) |
|
|
| 862 |
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad
motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial
matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the
most careful deliberation is wisdom. - W. M. L. Jay |
|
|
| 863 |
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong
and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing
that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out
to be impossible to get at and repair. - Douglas Adams |
|
|
| 864 |
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous
life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of
knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot
comprehend. - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) |
|
|
| 865 |
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual
superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong
proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. - Mark
Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906) |
|
|
| 866 |
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few
things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind,
which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last
unwillingly bestowed. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) |
|
|
| 867 |
We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair
share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes
went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes
went down and their taxes went up. - Bill Clinton |
|
|
| 868 |
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that
cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should
be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), in a sermon in 1943 |
|
|
| 869 |
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is
not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew
it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830), on the Pleasure of Hating |
|
|
| 870 |
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take
the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward.
Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The
future is yet in your power. - Hugh White (1773 - 1840) |
|
|
| 871 |
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot
find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true,
it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept
the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shunryu Suzuki |
|
|
| 872 |
Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own.
We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give
in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks
your... heart. - Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004 |
|
|
| 873 |
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your
friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see
a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words,
that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) |
|
|
| 874 |
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he
may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be
entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little
matters. - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects |
|
|
| 875 |
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually
giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must
sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must
use them and get other riches in return. - Robert Collier |
|
|
| 876 |
BLANK - VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - - the most
difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind,
therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write
any kind. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary |
|
|
| 877 |
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative
original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management
cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented
to them by a good salesman. - David M. Ogilvy |
|
|
| 878 |
HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy
and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly
inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases,
and they can not. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
|
|
| 879 |
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances
for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar
Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 |
|
|
| 880 |
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect
relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize
that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake.
You are sure to be happy again. - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) |
|
|
| 881 |
Lots of people lose themselves in love, it's no shame, they
write songs about it. The hitch is you can't stay lost, sooner
or later you have to get back to yourself. If you can't then
love becomes your master and you're just it's dog. - Marti Noxon |
|
|
| 882 |
They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand
them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market
of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those
'artistic' bitches of Paris. - Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) |
|
|
| 883 |
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try
again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble
are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment.
Own it. - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003 |
|
|
| 884 |
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during
his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them
and then lost them (through his deeds). - Hazrat Ali Ibn - e
- Abi Talib, Nahj - ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation) |
|
|
| 885 |
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults
from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real
character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth
of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. - Ricther |
|
|
| 886 |
It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered
because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches
will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low
- hanging apple for his efforts. - R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn |
|
|
| 887 |
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly
submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously
uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
|
|
| 888 |
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what
people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence.
Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very
best time to make the effort. - Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) |
|
|
| 889 |
The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,
respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones
from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the
milestones are lifted. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
|
|
| 890 |
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that
weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that
cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need
fathom not, but only hear and feel. - George Du Maurier (1834
- 1896) - |
|
|
| 891 |
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they
can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot
do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and
the free men who win wars. - John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The
Moon is Down |
|
|
| 892 |
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the
good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo
or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity
of today cannot touch. - Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely
Life, 1962 |
|
|
| 893 |
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours
a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for
eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing
a man can do for eight hours is work. - William Faulkner (1897
- 1962) |
|
|
| 894 |
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat
his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the
course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when
they both have equal confidence. - Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs
of a Geisha |
|
|
| 895 |
There's this big pie in show business, and you physically
can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie,
you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to
try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice. - Jay
Leno (1950 - ) |
|
|
| 896 |
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government
and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in
this counrty is closely related with this. - Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955) |
|
|
| 897 |
The reality is that there is nothing so vulgar left in human
experience for which some educator from some institution cannot
be found to justify it. In the name of literary license, anything
passes off as permissible. - Ravi Zacharias, Enslaved Through
Pleasure |
|
|
| 898 |
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember
that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you.
Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be
a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. - IBM maintenance
manual, 1925 |
|
|
| 899 |
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have
lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not
true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can
live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
- S. I. Hayakawa |
|
|
| 900 |
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society,
as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with
her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and
so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. - Betty Friedan
(1921 - 2006) |
|
|
| 901 |
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You
can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those
you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider
unimportant. You must be the same to all people. - Lillian Eichler
Watson |
|
|
| 902 |
Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away
rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is
fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and
hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. - Lao
- Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC) |
|
|
| 903 |
Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life,
but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to
maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,
1990 |
|
|
| 904 |
Jazz is the refuge of the untalented. When you go to a jazz
club, you may notice that no one is enjoying themselves half
as much as the people on stage. Jazz is like the theatre, it's
what you do when you can't get a real gig. - Tony Wilson, (president,
Factory Records) |
|
|
| 905 |
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot
alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams (1735 - 1826),
'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,'
December 1770 |
|
|
| 906 |
There is not a man in the country that can't make a living
for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and
his government, too, the way his government is living. What the
government has got to do is live as cheap as the people. - Will
Rogers (1879 - 1935) |
|
|
| 907 |
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains,
and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated;
nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places
to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our
very door. - Tyron Edwards |
|
|
| 908 |
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond
which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this
ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete
forgetfulness that one is alive. - Jack London (1876 - 1916),
The Call of the Wild |
|
|
| 909 |
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I
was old when I was twenty - one and out of work. As long as you're
working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all
that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. -
George Burns (1896 - 1996) |
|
|
| 910 |
It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful
struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't
forsee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle,
every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. - John Steinbeck
(1902 - 1968) |
|
|
| 911 |
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life.
Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death
in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the
wise cannot see all ends. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings,
Book Four, Chapter One |
|
|
| 912 |
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our
judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that
we never love without reservations and never hate with all our
being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or
white. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) |
|
|
| 913 |
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life
- the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday
mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and
ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays
out on a sunny morning. - W. B. Yeats |
|
|
| 914 |
Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of
the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that
things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind,
but simply callous - - indifferent to all suffering, lacking
all purpose. - Richard Dawkins (1941 - ) |
|
|
| 915 |
Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and
inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others,
but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but
it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest
yourself of it. - Admiral Hyman Rickover |
|
|
| 916 |
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident
called intelligence, the steward of life's continutity on earth.
We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may
not be suited to to it, but here we are. - Stephen Jay Gould
(1941 - 2002), Harvard University |
|
|
| 917 |
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the
governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government
of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern
him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson (1743
- 1826), First Inaugural Address |
|
|
| 918 |
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is
meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A
game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully,
before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered
daily routine. - Joel Patrick Warneke |
|
|
| 919 |
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper
channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those
secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in
its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. - Joseph Addison
(1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711 |
|
|
| 920 |
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness
to suffer an injury to one's self - esteem. That is why young
children, before they are aware of their own self - importance,
learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or
important, cannot learn at all. - Thomas Szasz |
|
|
| 921 |
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate
the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot
flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects,
when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root
of art. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
|
|
| 922 |
I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any
other way but there are many more experiences that are equally
satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions,
but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying
me to define their logic. - Julian Schnabel |
|
|
| 923 |
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe
what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people
trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - even
when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling. - Morrie Schwartz,
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom |
|
|
| 924 |
You can't hope to build a better world without improving
the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own
improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility
for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom
we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie |
|
|
| 925 |
The ruler cannot mobilize the army out of personal anger.
The general cannot engage in battle because of personal frustration.
Anger can revert to happiness, annoyance can revert to joy, but
a vanquished state cannot be revived, the dead cannot be brought
back to life. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War |
|
|
| 926 |
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to
be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be
honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter,
to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference
that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten (1908 - ) |
|
|
| 927 |
Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow
theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more. I went to
their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand
them. Only the last sentence cheered me up. It was: "And
this is Fermi's theory of beta decay. - Enrico Fermi |
|
|
| 928 |
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster.
Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are
capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and
great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), East of Eden |
|
|
| 929 |
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order
to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one
another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed,
whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from
plunging into evil. - Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) |
|
|
| 930 |
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will
soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the
absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never
coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through
it, it makes no sound... - Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) |
|
|
| 931 |
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and
there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there
is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but
we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't
know if there is one. - George Harrison (1943 - 2001) |
|
|
| 932 |
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for
he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind
is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This
is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very
being. - Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), Pensees(II,72) |
|
|
| 933 |
Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it
a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like
happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended
side - effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater
than oneself. - Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning |
|
|
| 934 |
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you
admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong
body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result
from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and
goodwill and serenity. - James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh" |
|
|
| 935 |
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not
stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles
for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent
what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black
at heart: mark and avoid him. - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) |
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| 936 |
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points
in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort
my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will
yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain
as hard as gems. - Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Blood and Gold" |
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| 937 |
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving
the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own
improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility
for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom
we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) |
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| 938 |
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the
sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give
life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land.
It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell
it because it does not belong to us. - Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880) |
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| 939 |
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our
tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which
were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his
reason may reject them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935) |
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| 940 |
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to
change, because this society is based on misery. If people are
blissful you cannot lead them to war - - to Vietnam, or to Egypt,
or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and
say: This is nonsense! - Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds |
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| 941 |
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt
to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you
will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable
of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to
sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. - Robert A. Heinlein |
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| 942 |
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is
outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the
future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where
it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at
every point except where they can be found - - in himself. -
Erich Frohm |
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| 943 |
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody
or any place without a pang - if they find another person or
another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples
it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the
change will be absolutely to their advantage. - John Oliver Hobbes |
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| 944 |
A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence
of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'.
Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same
conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole
you will see the electron. - Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) |
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| 945 |
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky
man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not
shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds
very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot
do good to themselves, how can they do good for me? - Rothschild |
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| 946 |
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they
are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on
in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances
they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George
Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession"
(1893) act II |
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| 947 |
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because
I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept
quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second
amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've
come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
- Tim Freeman |
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| 948 |
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are
hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a
"have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I
shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for
power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type
of self. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) |
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| 949 |
Marriage isn't for life any more - - life is too long. Marriage
is for love. Love gladly accepts responsibility. Love wants commitment.
Marriage should be celebrated as the optimistic and glorious
thing that it is. We can't call it a failure if it doesn't last
forever. - Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian, Tuesday, April 23,
2002 |
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| 950 |
Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate
reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be
planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to
just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't
design or ordain. - Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of
Intention, January 2004 |
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| 951 |
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it
for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to
provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound.
You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see. -
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986) |
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| 952 |
I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering
than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others.
Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from
fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest
joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward. - William
Dean Howells |
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| 953 |
Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes
you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there
is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until
it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling
to a plastic duck. - Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate
Events: The Slippery Slope |
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| 954 |
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging
above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous
physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above
your door brings you luck?. Of course not, Bohr replied, "but
I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether
I believe in it or not." - Neils Bohr |
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| 955 |
One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd
like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't
read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things
and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of
the big lessons of this life. - Real Live Preacher, Real Live
Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003 |
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| 956 |
. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely
alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking
after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep -
it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly.
Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) |
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| 957 |
Through and through the world is infested with quantity.
To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the
nation is large - how large? It is no use s aying that radium
is scarce - how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly
to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in
your rhythms and your octaves. -Alfred North Whitehead |
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| 958 |
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity
has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe
when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely
to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose
a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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| 959 |
I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their
fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we
wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people
project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really
are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And
you can't really control that. - Salma Hayek |
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| 960 |
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time
and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the
world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having
or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting
a few drops on yourself. - Og Mandino (1923 - 1996) |
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| 961 |
It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial
is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal.
In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling
a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards.
I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.
- Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006 |
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| 962 |
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot
be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to
the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched
our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for
the soul of the child. - Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) |
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| 963 |
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets
that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble
to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it
just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry
cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was
originally written, we learn the language. - Samuel Johnson |
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| 964 |
Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If
one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be
free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long
as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence. -
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 1922 Circuit House speech (court)
charged with "attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys
government" |
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| 965 |
To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all
areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think
healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours
a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy
thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want
to share in the abundance that surrounds us all. - Sidney Madwed |
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| 966 |
I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect
and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the
tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot
lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible
sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we
should also learn a lesson. - George Washington Carver (1864
- 1943) |
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| 967 |
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education,
or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help
being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime;
the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried
out automatically and without pity. - Excerpt from the notebooks
of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for
Love" |
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| 968 |
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on
the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're
a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget,
which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if
you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally
remember that which is the most unfortunate. - Hubert H. Humphrey
(1911 - 1978) |
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| 969 |
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the
discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship
has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This
inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most
marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately
wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. - Sir Hugh Walpole |
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| 970 |
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - - we can not
consecrate - - we can not hallow - - this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget
what they did here. -Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address,
November 19, 1863 |
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| 971 |
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When
progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who
believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who
are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly
can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a
high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.
- A. Lou Vickery |
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| 972 |
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety.
They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill,
play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything
that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of
them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot
be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves. -
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) |
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| 973 |
Portrait of a losing side, proof positive that you can't
outpunch machinery. Proof also of something else: that no matter
what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion
will remain unaltered. His potential for tenacity and optimism
continues, as always, to outfight and outlive any and all changes
made by his society. - Rod Serling (1924 - 1975), closing to
Twilight Zone episode "Steel" |
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| 974 |
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be
subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation,
are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination
by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim
to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has
stood the test of a free and public examination. - Immanuel Kant
(1724 - 1804) |
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| 975 |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what
you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you
want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change.
Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But
change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that
reality. - Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior |
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| 976 |
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every
man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To
win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to
give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self
- sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.
To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds
of souls have others. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) |
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| 977 |
In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and
medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an
arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which
the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced
in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has
suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which
does not seem exactly fair. - Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire |
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| 978 |
Time is but the stream I go a - fishing in. I drink at it;
but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow
it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I
would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly
with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of
the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as
wise as the day I was born. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) |
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