Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
What I cannot stand in the behaviour of the E.U. with regard to Great Britain is blackmail, constant threat.
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.
The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
I love Prada shoes. I cannot get enough of them. Or Valentino.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in.
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
We cannot give our students all that they expect, whether by way of the quality of their schooling or by way of the jobs that they were hoping to get. Student frustration is a worldwide phenomenon, pushing our societies into adjusting faster than they are used to.
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.
One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
