The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
If the chief executive cannot have a party background, how can she ensure her team is wholeheartedly united?
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.
The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
