Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it’s all right, it...

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world’s biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.

The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to...

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

India needs a change – it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with...

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness...

One thing I cannot stand is when people say, ‘Hi, how are you?’ and they don’t wait to hear how I am. They’re just going through the motions. I say to people: ‘Keep it human....

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

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.

I cannot sing karaoke because it’s hard and weird. If I actually tried to sing, I would probably sound good, and I think that’s weird and not fun.

People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.

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

I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing...

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.

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.