Cannot Quotes

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

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

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

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

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

A lie cannot live.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I cannot live without books.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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