Cannot Quotes

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

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.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes.

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

One cannot have economic growth without security.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.