Cannot Quotes

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.