The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.
Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
Once in a while you can run very fast, but you cannot always go to the maximum.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
I propose that matchmaking should be approached like a corporate business venture. It can be risky, but I have discovered that the potential profits from acquisitions and mergers cannot be underestimated.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.
I cannot cook to save my life - I microwave everything or it's simply scrambled eggs on toast.
There is no role I cannot play except a midget.
