The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.
I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
One moment cannot be the most important.
I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.
There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.
Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.
Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
I cannot guarantee anything.
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year.
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
