Cannot Quotes

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.

I cannot command winds and weather.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done.

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

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.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.