Quotes of: Cannot Keyword

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

Welcome to Braggsville

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

Written on the Body

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim, My darkness is composed of him.

Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.

Warning! Proceed With Caution Into the Practice of Law

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

White Night

You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.

Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

The Waves

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

The Weight of Water

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Zen in the Art of Writing

Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.

Douglas Conant

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

Dee Hock

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.

Helen Wills Moody

'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.

Ira Sachs

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Jean de la Bruyere

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve.

Josh Duhamel

I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'

Landon Donovan

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.

Mitch Daniels

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

Mark Helprin

There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.

Psy

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

Tim Johnson