Top 430 We Cannot Quotes

When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.
Yoshihide Suga
When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.
Celeste Ng
We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Omar Bongo
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
Jeannette Rankin
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Nancy Gibbs
We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.
Joe Thomas
We cannot ignore the networks where there is an ideological battle going on.
Miguel Diaz-Canel
We cannot let ourselves be infantalized. We cannot let ourselves be stereotyped.
Marine Le Pen
If people have the choice of where they settle in Europe, then we cannot be surprised that they choose to come over here in search of a better life.
Sebastian Kurz
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market – more choices, lower prices, higher quality – and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
John Shadegg
Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.
Brad Schneider
We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms.
Matt Bevin
We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.
Mellody Hobson
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
Margaret Chan
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden
We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.
Gwen Moore
We cannot keep gapping units where we need a good strong NCO or staff NCO and he’s not there. They’ve got to have the right technical, the right leadership qualifications for the billet.
Joseph Dunford
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, b

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson
I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.
Chris Gibson
We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets.
Sadiq Khan
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
Alain Rene Le Sage
Our brain, our body, craves fat. We cannot help it. That’s why a kid will eat a hot dog quicker than a piece of broccoli.
Jose Andres
When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June.
Howard Coble
We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.
Kofi Annan
Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children’s education.
Michael Bennet
We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.
Ayanna Pressley
We cannot think about playoffs. We just need to play the games.
Nikola Jokic
If we’re unified, there’s nothing we cannot do.
Ray Nagin
We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
Carles Puigdemont
One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.
Steve Southerland
I’m looking forward to working for the ‘Tribune’ because any company that can invest in the Chicago Cubs has a view of the future we cannot begin to comprehend.
Jeff MacNelly
We cannot always shine and play to our very best, but as long as we win, it doesn’t matter.
Thomas Muller
There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
Elizabeth Dole
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
We cannot base our judgment on binaries such as a person’s gender.
Mahira Khan
What we cannot deny is that there’s an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
Maajid Nawaz
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Garrett Hardin
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
Salman Rushdie
This notion that we cannot be about jobs and stewardship of the environment is just simply not right. We’ve always done that well as a country. We haven’t had to choose.
Scott Pruitt
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Patrick Henry
Local Arab partners and the Iraqi government must lead the fight against ISIL. U.S. military advisers are important to this effort, but we cannot be engaged in combat operations. That is why Congress must revoke the previous war authorization and define our appropriate role in defeating ISIL.
Brian Schatz
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.
Thomas Aquinas
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
We cannot have another experience like we’ve had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.
Mick Mulvaney
In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation’s largest corporations.
Ron Kind
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn’t have a sort of influence. It does.
Jamie Foxx
I go quite often to David Luiz’s house, and Willian usually joins us, as they are close friends. We have a barbecue, play video games, and we cannot live without samba.
Richarlison
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
L. Lionel Kendrick
We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we

We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we do not in some degree remove ourselves from the circumstances in which we stand and substitute those by which the real actors were surrounded.
William Godwin
We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.
Rick Perry
As we celebrate the considerable progress we’ve made toward full equality in our military, we cannot forget about those who continue to suffer because of the discriminatory policies of our past.
Mark Pocan
The girls who come into Tamil cinema today are educated and from well-to-do families. Unlike the actresses of my generation, they do not need cinema for survival. We cannot write a small role – dead cast, as I call it – and expect them to be excited.
Karthik Subbaraj
We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.
Moshe Vardi
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
Maajid Nawaz
We cannot play soccer without hands. You need your arms while running.
Niko Kovac
We cannot generalise anything in life. We cannot say media people are like this, film people are like this, or doctors are like this.
Poonam Dhillon
Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights. But history is not on their side. We cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America fought in the defense of slavery.
Roy Cooper
While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.
Jacque Fresco
We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
Lindsey Graham
In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.
Cathy Engelbert
We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
Petra Nemcova
The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will one day espouse the communist ideology. But nowhere does it say we cannot live in peace with the U.S.S.R. In the nuclear age, there is truly no alternative.
Antony Blinken
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
Even if I could talk face to face with the pilot who dropped the bombs I would tell him, ‘We cannot change history, but we should try to do good things for the present and for the future to promote peace.’
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.
Chris Van Hollen