Cannot Quotes

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

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.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.