I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
The fighter is born. He cannot be made.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit ‘the wild goose.’ And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
I always like to assist more than scoring: it gives me another feeling; I cannot explain it.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
We cannot embrace God’s forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it – that fellow grows, it grows wild.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Yes, we have ruined the Earth and have done an exceptionally good job of it. Yes, we should look at sustainable development. But we cannot afford to do things sequentially, but parallelly and make sure that we do not repeat our mistakes.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
I have always been very calm on the outside. I’m not too stressed now just because I’m in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
