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“You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.”
“You cannot sedate all the things you hate.”
“You cannot see a person’s heart, belief or motive unless it identifies itself with an action.”
“You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes,desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep cleansing of your eyes. That's what meditation is. Let the thoughts disappear, the hopes disappear, the desires disappear. Then you have a clarity, then your eyes are perfect mirrors. Only then, in that silent state of your vision, will you know the secrets of the beyond.”
“You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.”
“You cannot see God until you notice people”
“You cannot see me from where I look at myself”
“You cannot see or feel love, with your wisdom eyes, you need to use your heart eyes for that which tell the truth”
“You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.”
Source: Canyons of the Colorado
“You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.”
Source: The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories
“You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And if you lose those, naturally, you try to compensate by other stimulations, by very loud noises, or by bright lights or drugs.”
“You cannot see the mountain near.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.”
“You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know becasue you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume
“You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.”
“You cannot seek happiness. If you seek happiness, you will become more and more
unhappy. You have to disappear for appiness to come. You cannot seek and demand
happiness. Happiness is a grace, which comes to you when you are open and available. If you demand happiness, you will destroy it. Happiness comes when you are not. It comes when you are silent and empty. In your total emptiness, suddenly happiness
is there. You are the hindrance to happiness, so you cannot seek it. If you disappear only
then happiness is there. When the self is completely gone, then only you are happy. To attain to happiness, one has to dissolve oneself completely. You have to disappear so that there is no hindrance to joy and happiness. Joy and happiness is the essence of existence, it is the nature of God. If you are not there, God will be there.”
Source: God is Everywhere: You are Divine, Everything is Divine
“You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.”
“You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.”
“You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.”
“You cannot send a text message to someone when your phone is out of credit! Also, you cannot pray without first asking for mercy from God at the same time expecting God to receive your prayer! First put spiritual credit into your heart, which is mercy, which is repentance, before sending a prayer to God.”
“You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.”
“You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.”
“You cannot separate charity and religion.”
“You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.”
Source: Letters to a Young Doctor
“You cannot separate the act of laughing from the state of being happy.”
“You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.”
“You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.”
“You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!”
“You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.”
“You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.”
“You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.”
“You cannot serve God without serving people”
“You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.”
Source: 129 Songs
“You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.”
Source: New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits
“You cannot settle and be happy.”
Source: Dancing Lessons
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.”
Source: I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from
“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.”
“You cannot shine if you are unused, for then you will rust and deflate.”
Source: Behind the Hospital
“You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.”
“You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one? I do not consider that an invention by the son is a slander upon the father; I regard each invention simply as an improvement; and every father should be exceedingly proud of an ingenious son. If Mr. Talmage has a son, it will be impossible for him to honor his father except by differing with him.”
Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage
“You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.”
“You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.”
“You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.”
“You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”
“You cannot simply waste money on the newest model of the iPhone, when countless homes across the world can't even afford electricity. You cannot simply have food fights in the name of fun, when countless people across the world don't even have two wholesome meals in a day. You cannot simply waste a ridiculous amount of money on fancy suits, dresses, wines, cars and mansions when our very own kind is suffering on a daily basis round the clock.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.”
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
Source: Einstein on Peace
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.”
Source: Einstein on Peace