Cannot Quotes

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.

He who talks much cannot talk well.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.