My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted. But these freedoms have come with a price so many times. The sacrifices made by our veterans are reminders to us of this.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
We cannot have the fruits of the gospel without its roots.
You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.'
We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.
Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
