A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept.
I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.
When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of a democracy.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.
