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“You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.”
“You cannot imagine, to give you another example, that you may have, one day, a prime minister (it would go against my modesty to breathe his name) who, one day, after announcing in Parliament, in a cool, impassive voice, that, as the result of a number of carefully thought out diplomatic manoeuvres he has refrained from discussing before (for he is not a man of many words), he has succeeded in annexing Britain as an ordinary colony of Hungary, and that he is taking this opportunity to apprise the House of the fact; - Well, as I say, after explaining this in a cool and impassive tone, ignoring the shouting, jubilant Members who want to carry him round on their shoulders, suddenly he takes up a fencing posture and, right there, on the premier's rostrum, employing a formidable, hitherto unknown jujitsu hold, floors the Australian world wrestling champion whom the British opposition treacherously hid under the rostrum in order to assassinate the greatest European.”
Source: Please Sir!
“You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.”
“You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection...It needs to be appreciated that children in developing countries are at a much greater risk of complications from vaccination and from mercury toxicity...because poor nutrition, parasitic and bacterial infections and low birth weight.”
“You cannot impart a vision that breeds confusion. Therefore, while you are still counted among the living, work on your vision until it gets to the point of manifestation.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“You cannot impart what you do not possess.”
Source: As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship
“You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country.”
“You cannot impose change on your friends; you can only suggest.”
“You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.”
“You cannot imprison me!" He bellowed. "I am Hyperion! I am-" The bark closed over his face. Grover took his pipes from his mouth. "You are a very nice maple tree.”
“You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.”
“You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them”
“You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.”
Source: An Unshakable Mind: How to Overcome Life’s Difficulties
“You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.”
“You cannot influence minds by making them feel comfortable. Influence should provoke the comfortable lifestyle into an uncomfortable situation where opportunities lie.”
“You cannot innovate by copying.”
“You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.”
“You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there.”
“You cannot inspire others if you imitate a walk that inspires you; If you can create a different inspiration by internalizing an inspiring walk and adding your own soul to it, then you will have an inspiring walk too!”
“You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.”
Source: A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year
“You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .”
Source: This Business of Living
“You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom.”
Source: You Can't Google Life
“You cannot insult the faith of others.”
“You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.”
“You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.”
“You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.”
“You cannot intimidate someone who has been through hell and traumatized by others.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 2
“You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.”
“You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.”
“You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.”
“You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“You cannot judge a book by its contents.”
“You cannot judge a book by its cover
but you sure can judge a person by the kind of books they read.”
“You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.”
Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan
“You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.”
“You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.”
“You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.”
“You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.”
“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.”
“You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and Africa has got all these things in abundance. And we go there and get them, and the more we develop the Chinese economy, the larger the manufacturing is, the more we need global markets - sell it to the Africans which indeed might very well destroy whatever infant industries are trying to develop on the continent. That is what the market would do.”
“You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.”
“You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.”
“You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected”
Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm
“You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.”
“You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.”
“You cannot keep determined people for success.”
“You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.”
“You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.”