Cannot Quotes

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

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

This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

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.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.