Cannot Quotes

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.

One moment cannot be the most important.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.