We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don’t intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
I like fish, and I also like bear’s paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear’s paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Nothing cannot exist forever.
I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can’t do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn’t say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I’m going to be loyal to my friend because he’s my friend.
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
A lie cannot live.
All religions accept that there is something called ‘criminality.’ And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Truth cannot be defeated.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.
We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe’, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-’60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
