What cannot be cured must be endured.
One cannot learn to swim in a field.
The plant often removed cannot thrive.
The eye cannot see what blows into it.
One armpit cannot hold two watermelons.
A chicken's head cannot wear a turban.
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot pr...
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what h...
At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it." "It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly
I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop.
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an attribute of the individual. The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsio...
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
You cannot turn blood into water.
The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
