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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a...

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.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them...

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

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...

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter,...

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.