There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.
It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment.
Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.
Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.
You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.
