#cannot

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#deep #into #ourselves #over #ruts

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. ↗

— Buddha

#battles #better #cannot #conquer #demons

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#cannot #i #i do #poison #put

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#cannot #elegant #knowledge #language #literature

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ↗

— Richard Burton

#islands #large #little #look #prisons

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile. ↗

— George W. Bush

#cannot #hold #hostile #nation #our

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#equalize #law #mankind #nature #spite

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#cannot #engines #fire #house #little

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#assert #believe #cannot #gods #had

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#great #great ones #like #magnifies #microscope