Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.
As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real world has teeth
If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.
I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." [ (The White House, July 25, 1961)]
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.
While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.
