One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.
I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
One cannot negotiate under fire.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule.
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.
When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.
I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers - you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.
I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions of people and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannot connect with them in my normal, everyday life.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.
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.
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
