Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.
We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
Jayalalitha cannot be misled about anything. She is one of the most well informed persons today in Indian politics.
One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.
You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.
While monetary policy can contribute to growth by supporting a durable expansion in a context of price stability, it cannot reliably affect the long-run sustainable level of the economy's growth.
As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot.
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
I want to request Modiji that you cannot accomplish nation-building by disappointing the government employees.
