#we cannot

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#cannot #cardinal #driven #impatience #only

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cannot #fear #know #live #masks

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. ↗

— Dave Barry

#believe #bills #cannot #company #electric

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#been #cannot #clear #course #future

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#cannot #childhood #even #infancy #like

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#back #cannot #caused #clock #determine

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#basic #block #budget #budget cuts #building

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. ↗

— Alice Stone Blackwell

#both #cannot #chivalry #justice #than