Cannot Quotes

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

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.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

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

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.