Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord...

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we...

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

I don’t think there is anything a man can do that a woman cannot do.

He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression… I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be...

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We’re designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony...

The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it’s crazy. So you can’t improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind,...

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never...

Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can’t change them… but you can change your response to them.

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to...

I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional...

Don’t you get it? You can’t tell me what to feel.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu – that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There’d be...

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each...

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we’ll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won’t necessarily have advance alerts...

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous...

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It’s right there in black and white and it’s been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

There is nothing here that’s broken that can’t be fixed, but it won’t happen on its own. It’s going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and...

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

The simplistic solutions of Deepak Chopra cannot stand against the lofty and deep teachings of Jesus Christ. Only in His answers will we find the ultimate hope for the human heart.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

We’re strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it...

I have to give the SNL crew props – it cannot have been easy to work with me.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.