Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
You cannot do only one thing.
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
The only hard-and-fast rules a Perot must operate under are getting a sound education; being honest and ethical in our business dealings; treating the people who work for us with respect and dignity; and, finally, a Perot cannot be afraid to take risks when appropriate.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
The Democratic Party's governing elite has long believed there is no problem that European-style policies cannot cure.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
