One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won’t read.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It’s usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate...

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don’t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it’s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective...

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

I wouldn’t be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage – probably hate – I’m not sure of hate, but rage. But you know...

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing… and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave – caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being...

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

I have always been very calm on the outside. I’m not too stressed now just because I’m in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have...

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‘I don’t know.’ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present...

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It’s not healthy and it doesn’t feel right.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what...

First of all, you have to understand that I’m like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an...

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building,...

He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

It’s people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

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.