My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I’m a film-maker, and I’m a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.
I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
The people who have impacted the world didn’t live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.
The past cannot be cured.
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man’s God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
