Cannot Quotes

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I cannot guarantee anything.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.