I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK?

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu – that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There’d be less hatred and more harmony.

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, ‘My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.’

I cannot imagine any circumstances under which David McNarry would be back in the Ulster Unionist Assembly group of MLAs when I have control of the whip.

I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his own accord, what you cannot argue about is the fervent belief of the followers that this happened.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing ‘You Enjoy Myself ‘.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

First of all, you have to understand that I’m like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by...

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave – caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition – cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in...

I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression… I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my...

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

There’s no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course – and it’s important to stress this – you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

I don’t think there is anything a man can do that a woman cannot do.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

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.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it’s strange to let things...

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‘I don’t know.’ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

Don’t you get it? You can’t tell me what to feel.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

While I’m leader, nothing will be off limits – there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

Bosnia is under my skin. It’s the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.