Cannot Quotes

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.