#cannot

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#cannot #difference #educate #failed #had

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#believe #believe in yourself #cannot #god #until

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. ↗

— Voltaire

#cannot #oblige #speak #we cannot

We cannot wish for that we know not. ↗

— Voltaire

#know #we cannot #wish

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#cheque #dress #good #here #i

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becoming #cannot #catholic #centuries #christian

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#come #communicate #different #different world #live

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ↗

— Rebecca West

#cannot #complicated #forgets #learn #man

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. ↗

— James Whistler

#apart #cannot #consider #english #folk