Cannot Quotes

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.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

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.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

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.