Cannot Quotes

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

'Wei' means 'future' and also 'uncertainty,' and the future really is unknown. They have said I cannot leave China because they are still investigating cases against me - for pornography, exchanging foreign currency and bigamy. It is very, very strange. I am not a criminal. They grabbed something from me because they have power.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.