#cannot

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#chances #conversations #habit #how #improvement

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#fool #gain #gives #keep #lose

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with. ↗

— Anne Ford

#accepting #before #break #cannot #child

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#idea #person #possessed #reasoned

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#bank #bank account #because #cannot #cheating

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#any #bush #call #cannot #consider

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#acting #alone #any #cannot #difference

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ↗

— Edward Everett Hale

#cannot #everything #i #i am #i can

In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#anything #cannot #country #lebanon #never