Cannot Quotes

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

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.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.