History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
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.
Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior.
The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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 game.
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.