There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.
I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.
If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
A lie cannot live.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
