Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.
We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
