Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.
You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.
We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.
From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
