Cannot Quotes

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.