The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?
If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.
A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.
My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
I cannot be bored, and I always want to have fun.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.
You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.
I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.
I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.
Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
