You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.
Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
A mind cannot be independent of culture.
Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don’t give them up. Don’t cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours – long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.
In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.
Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima.
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.
You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
