Cannot Quotes

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

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.

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.