Cannot Quotes

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

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.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

'Wei' means 'future' and also 'uncertainty,' and the future really is unknown. They have said I cannot leave China because they are still investigating cases against me - for pornography, exchanging foreign currency and bigamy. It is very, very strange. I am not a criminal. They grabbed something from me because they have power.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.