If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.
A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.
We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.
As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.
Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
I cannot command winds and weather.
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
Those who worship God only, can get rid of anxiety of mind; others cannot.
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.
I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
