Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.
When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.
To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
We cannot stop what we cannot see.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Who has not served cannot command.
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
