A Quote by John D. MacDonald

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

John D. MacDonald

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Cannot Endure Inexplicable People Worthlessness

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John D. MacDonald
American - Writer
July 24, 1916 - December 28, 1986

When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk [in the minds of its advocates].

Norman Macbeth

And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.

Anton Webern

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

Saint Francis de Sales

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Friedrich Schiller

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

John of Salisbury

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Giorgio de Chirico

One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost required to achieve any worthwhile purpose.

Danny Silk

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Nations cannot endure in sin.

Ezra Taft Benson

You cannot endure what you never enjoy!

Steven Furtick

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Eric Hoffer

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Eugene Delacroix

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Mason Cooley

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

Sarah J. Maas

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

Anne Rice

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