Top 430 We Cannot Quotes

Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good.
Sri Chinmoy
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
Henri Poincare
We cannot turn away because a topic is unpleasant or vile. Why? Because one way to rid our society of evil is to confront it boldly.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.
Benny Gantz
We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California’s children.
Rob Reiner
We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.
Cyril Ramaphosa
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare’s whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton’s way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth’s or at Shelley’s, by examining almost any one of their important works.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Joe Biden
I fear human beings, because we cannot predict the swings of a human being. They are capable of doing anything. I really fear that.
P. T. Usha
As Polish society we cannot live with the term ‘Polish death camps’ or ‘Polish concentration camps.’
Andrzej Duda
We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.
Stanley Hauerwas
Television in itself is a very big platform, and movies are even bigger. So we cannot compare both of them.
Sara Khan
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Che Guevara
We cannot sell out our public lands for destructive fossil fuel development that pollutes our air, water, and land.
Alex Padilla
If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
Orison Swett Marden
We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.
Jeannette Rankin
We cannot afford to continue losing our coral reefs, which are suffering from a number of threats such as warmer temperatures, more acidic waters, and disease, and that is why Hawaii has become a leader in taking steps to mitigate the harmful impacts of sunscreen on our marine environment.
Mazie Hirono
We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
Indira Gandhi
I’ve danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can’t do that.
Judith Jamison
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.
Orison Swett Marden
I have a lot of respect for Ali Karimi and appreciate his football but we cannot get desired results with big names. It won’t work.
Ali Daei
Without – you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.
Michael McCaul
Democracy is not what we don’t want. Democracy is what we do want. It is a set of affirmative values by which we can move forward. If we cannot insert our values into our vote, and our vote is simply against what we fear most, then we are a ship lost at sea.
Jill Stein
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Newman
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
Edward R. Murrow
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.
Herb Kohl
We cannot let our guard down in the face of terror.
Asa Hutchinson
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
John Bates Clark
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas
However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.
Padmapriya Janakiraman
We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.
Rick Santelli
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
Gene Tierney
The United States will always be a global leader, and we need to actively engage the international community to make sure all citizens of the world live freely and equally under their country’s rule of law. We cannot, however, afford to fight other nations’ wars interminably or stabilize their regions.
Bill Foster
I think the female gaze is important because we cannot have just one perspective on anything.
Konkona Sen Sharma
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
Montesquieu
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Bec

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Germaine Greer
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
H. Rap Brown
This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.
Najib Razak
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
Abraham Lincoln
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
Vaclav Klaus
Migrant workers have helped build our roads, homes and offices. We cannot stand and watch them be homeless.
Sonu Sood
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
Jonathan Sacks
We cannot talk about a player who is not here.
Casemiro
We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
Viktor Orban
Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?
Rob Portman
We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
Wolfgang Schauble
We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy – the American middle class and those struggling to enter it.
Paul Tonko
The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose… We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music – gospel, blues, jazz and R&B – is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I’m telling you.
Quincy Jones
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
J. Martin Kohe
At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God’s creatures.
Pope Benedict XVI
We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.
Chris Grayling
Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.
Madeleine M. Kunin
We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing – literally, silence can kill.
Anthony Foxx
We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.
Frances Hesselbein
Left to their own devices, the Tories will squash the life out of what Brexit really represents in terms of the chance to shake up political life and overturn a complacent status quo. We cannot let that happen.
Claire Fox
Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
Bhagat Singh