Cannot Quotes

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

You cannot change me; this is the way I am.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

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

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.