Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
A blanket could be used to show love, by providing warmth, comfort, and an itchiness of desire that cannot be satisfied by a single scratch.
I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.
I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.
It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.
I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.
I could flee to the heath. Show them that they cannot keep me locked up, that I am a thief of time and will steal the hours denied to me!
Whether we choose the path of faith or not, we all must agree that all of life's ironies cannot be by accident.
There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any cas...
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and ...
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
