#cannot

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#cannot #difference #even #exact #failure

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#cannot #class #come #fans #football

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bury #cannot #comes #construe #cunning

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#cannot #conquer #duty #fear #first

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#cannot #clear #comedian #cut #either

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#cannot #himself #man #marble #remake

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. ↗

— James Fenton

#done #fine #fine thing #forgery #generous

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#future #know #much #plan

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#always #between #cannot #difference #far

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#cannot #man #ought #says #will