Cannot Quotes

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.