Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A lie cannot live.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.[Mark Twain] Quote:Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.[James Matthew Barrie] Quote:All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.[Tobey Maguire] Quote:If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.[Victor Hugo] Quote:One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.[Victor Hugo] Quote:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.[Sydney Smith] Quote: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] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote: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.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today's complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM.[Dave Barry] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Someone doing it often interrupts the person saying it cannot be done.[Author Unknown] Quote:You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.[Dave Barry] Quote:Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.[Bill Maher] Quote:Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.[Stephen King] Quote:Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.[Saint Augustine] Quote:If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.[Frank Tyger] Quote:A stream cannot rise larger than its source.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.[Andr Gide] Quote:There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:What you cannot enforce, do not command.[Socrates] Quote:I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.[Roger Ebert] Quote:What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The laws of gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.[Patrick Henry] Quote:A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.[Daniel Webster] Quote:After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me.[Carrie-Anne Moss] Quote:The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.[Helen Keller] Quote: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] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.[George Santayana] Quote:You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Our industries have expanded to such a point that they will burst their jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets of the world. Our domestic markets no longer suffice. We need foreign markets.[Woodrow Wilson] Quote: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] Quote:You must do the thing you think you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:"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] Quote:I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. [Cato the Elder] Quote: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] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [George Santayana] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [George Santayana] Quote:One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. [Jane Austen] Quote: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] Quote: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] Quote:Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. [Cecil B. DeMille] Quote: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] Quote:We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. [John Dewey] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote: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] Quote: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] Quote: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] Quote:Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. [Colette] Quote: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] Quote:I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. [Lillian Hellman] Quote: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] Quote:You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. [Albert Camus] Quote:We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. [Agnes Repplier] Quote: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] Quote:You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. [Hermann Hesse] Quote: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] Quote:You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote: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] Quote:When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote: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] Quote:A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. [Edward Gibbon] Quote:We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. [Richard Feynman] Quote: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. [George Ade] Quote:Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. [Eugene Delacroix] Quote:No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote: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] Quote:I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. [David Letterman] Quote:I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. [David Letterman] Quote:Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis in tiny and he cannot spell. [Erica Jong] Quote:There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. [Cicero] Definitions of: cannotDefinition: Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two. |
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