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What rights are there for homosexuals? The only right is to be led to repentance. To live in such defilement of the body, in such dishonour, in such abomination, while all the time asking for liberties the church cannot grant, is unbelievable.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.