It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.
If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
