You cannot forge a good sword from bad iron.
You cannot breathe through another man's nose.
A man cannot jump over his own shadow.
If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he will dream of being a professor.
You cannot shave a man's head in his absence.
You cannot cross a river without getting wet.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as apples on a new tree. You cannot deafen your ear to the thunder of the surf. The bright sands, the ...
We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love w...
As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life. pg.404
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.
What the war did to dreamers.
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
We cannot force the development of mindfulness.
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime.
We cannot make peace with people who are not peaceful with innocent creatures.
