Cannot Quotes

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.