Cannot Quotes

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

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.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.