Cannot Quotes

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.