#cannot

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#cannot #celtic #character #countrymen #disliked

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. ↗

— Hypatia

#changeable #fact #fight #get #in fact

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#better #cannot #distaste #leave #love

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#cat #dog #done #feelings #had

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#cannot #centuries #defenders #freedoms #granted

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. ↗

— Anna Katharine Green

#apparent #artists #awakened #beauty #because

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. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#cannot #free #functions #govern #himself

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#cannot #commanded #correct #earns #grant

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#atoms #cannot #here #language #ordinary

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#conscience #cut #fashion #fit #i