But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
As a state sponsor of global terrorism and supplier of weapons to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons capabilities.
Most climatologists agree that, at best, global warming is a theory about future climactic conditions and cannot be proven based upon the historic record.
Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
How is it that Nigeria's military, which has a good record across West Africa, cannot claim back to 14 out of 774 local governorates from Boko Haram? They have to ask for mercenaries from South Africa? How the mighty has fallen!
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.
You cannot have an agreement... that gives a tailor's cut, a perfect handiwork, to a specific company.
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
