Cannot Quotes

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

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.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.