I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.
Branch Rickey: Your enemy will be out in force. But you cannot meet him on his own low ground.
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is gone.
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
