I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.
We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
In the underdeveloped countries, we have young men and women, many of them of capacity but without opportunity to improve themselves. They cannot do so without help.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
You cannot win if you cannot run.
I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides...
Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts as one person with an idea. How fast you go, how far you get, is in your hands. The bigger your vision, the bigger your achievement will be. Will you stumble on the way...
Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don’t. Everybody worships; it’s just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
