Cannot Quotes

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

'Wei' means 'future' and also 'uncertainty,' and the future really is unknown. They have said I cannot leave China because they are still investigating cases against me - for pornography, exchanging foreign currency and bigamy. It is very, very strange. I am not a criminal. They grabbed something from me because they have power.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.