Cannot Quotes

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.

I cannot command winds and weather.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done.

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.