We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
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.
If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
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.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.
The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.
There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.
In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
