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.
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.
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
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.
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.
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.
Try as you may, you cannot put the Lord in your debt. For every time you try to do His will, He simply pours out more blessings upon you.
Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.'
The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
