Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.
War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
I cannot look back and say I did everything I wanted to do in TNA.
The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
