It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever...

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one’s philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn’t any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I’m writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out – the idea that someone is reading as I’m writing stuff.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Wealth and power don’t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never in Russia; I am Austrian citizen. But definitely I am...

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn’t discharge.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms...

You cannot ‘rationalize’ what is not rational to begin with – as if lying were called ‘truthization.’ There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate...

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse....

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

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.