Top 1200 Cannot Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties of a free people have restrictions upon them, they cease to be freedoms and rights. Instead, the government becomes like a king, bestowing privileges upon the chosen few and servitude upon everyone else.

Donald Trump cannot, cannot be the man who leads the United States of America.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

If you don't cherish past experiences, you cannot learn from them and you cannot move on.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

You can buy a man's time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm... you cannot buy loyalty... you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, mind or souls. You must earn these.

You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this world, then if we wish to live, we cannot exempt ourselves from using the world. If we cannot exempt ourselves from use, then we must deal with the issues raised by use. And so the second law is that if we want to continue living, we cannot exempt use from care.

If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least in your thought be like a sluggard. If you are not victorious, do not exalt yourself over the vanquished. If you cannot close the mouth of a man who disparages his companion, at least refrain from joining him in this.- St. Isaac the Syrian

What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awareness. One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key.

Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal.

We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down.

The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.

If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

If someone tells you something cannot be done; it's just their way of saying they cannot do it

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

Miranda, my character, cannot sing, cannot act, and is really inappropriate.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.