Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
When an enlightened ruler controls his ministers, he makes it so that ministers cannot get credit for achievements gained by overstepping the bounds of their offices or make proposals and then fail to match them with actual achievements.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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.
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
I cannot compare and contrast Tinder and Bumble directly, but I will say that we have a very impressive, forward-thinking user base.
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the world should control a little bit the banks' financing because they cannot bypass a certain range of leverage.
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
