Cannot Quotes

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

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'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.

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

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.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.