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Quotes About Cannot

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.
~ Philippa Gregory
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
~ Plato, Symposium
I said; 'his example too. Yes, his example. I forgot that.' 'But I do not. I cannot—I
~ Joseph Conrad
One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.
~ Wendell Berry
Treason is a criminal act committed by an individual, not a political body and, therefore, cannot be committed by a State.
~ Daniel Miller
I assure your lordship that for the first time in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of campanology. I am always so delighted to find that there are things you cannot do.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I'm afraid you cannot leave,' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.
~ Douglas Adams
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
~ Jacques Derrida
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.
~ Mikhail Bakhtin
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
~ Kim Campbell
I cannot stand no wack MC. So step back if you please, And don't test me, you're history.
~ Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Excuse me, miss, but the young gentlemen say that you cannot get smoke without the boom, and they would like your advice on how to proceed.
~ Ally Carter
Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot.
~ Richard J. Foster
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
~ George Gordon Byron
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by and election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
~ Terry Pratchett
though English people are slow to take you in, when they once make up their minds to do it they cannot be outdone in hospitality, I think.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The attack by those who want to die — this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. — Human aphorism
~ Frank Herbert
While the ACLU's supposed principles may shift with the political winds, facts do not. They cannot.
~ Chad Wolf
From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.
~ Roman Payne
... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.
~ Emma Goldman
I had re-joined Spandau with a good heart, but I just got to the point where I thought I honestly cannot do this any more.
~ Tony Hadley
For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The UFO abduction phenomenon does not speak directly to this issue. It does not, cannot, "save" us.
~ John E. Mack