Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
If you’re not comfortable with public speaking – and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable – practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.
You cannot live a normal existence if you haven’t taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
When I get older, I don’t think I’ll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.
The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
The Special Olympics motto, ‘Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,’ really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that’s all any of us can hope for – a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
Freedom cannot be given… It can only be taken away.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they’re too big to fail.
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
You cannot be a winner without maturity and consistency.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.
The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia… but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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 allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
