If you don’t lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

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

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

I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It’s a beautiful thing.

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

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

I actually cannot stand a room without a view – I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles,...

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What...

Europe cannot survive another world war.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally...

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

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...

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it...

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....

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

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.

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

You cannot play with fire.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated...

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won’t mean much if we don’t do a great job...

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

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...

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called ‘objectivity.’ Objectivity does not exist – it cannot exist!… The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the...

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must...

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

Well, as you’ve said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it’s an...

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you’re disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

I’m in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be...

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

I cannot command winds and weather.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are – are – are living in – in very, very, very bad...

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

If one cannot command attention by one’s admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.