Cannot Quotes

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

God’s people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Freedom cannot be given… It can only be taken away.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Sometimes I was sad, sometimes happy. Just on and off. Always I felt welcome. It’s just, you know, sometimes as a human being, you cannot always be happy. You do good things, you do bad things, people talk.

Souls cannot be saved without exertion.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

For me the bare feet are grounding. I’m connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.