Cannot Quotes

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

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.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.