You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Democracy cannot be a plaything for the capital cities. It has to infiltrate every nook and cranny in the country, including the village.
Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It's incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.
I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'
