You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.
I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.
I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?
Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
