I’m a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can’t hold – you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are...

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very...

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

If we’re unified, there’s nothing we cannot do.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

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.

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...

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God’s children.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

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.

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.

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 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.

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