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

My brain… cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, ‘You’re a failure’… I think that’s almost worse than death.

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.

You cannot advance if you cannot visualize the end from the start.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

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...

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a...

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night’s black spell on darkness, beguiling

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn’t on the page, then it really won’t make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

You cannot deal with a city if it’s not socially integrated.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot...

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion...

Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that...

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

In terms of relationships, I’ve had two failures, although I don’t like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I’ve always said that I...

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction – particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

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.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

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...

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

I met Ellie Goulding at the BRITs. She’s lovely. I’ve got a lot of time for her. I gave her congratulations and whatnot and she let me hold her BRIT. That was amazing – once...

I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to...

But in practice master plans fail – because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life...

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join the emerging markets on the downside because if you take a bearish view about emerging economies, you cannot be too optimistic about the U.S. because...