Cannot Quotes

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

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

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

One moment cannot be the most important.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.