Cannot Quotes

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

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

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.