Cannot Quotes

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

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.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

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

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

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.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.