You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought.
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
Anytime emotions are involved, you cannot come up with an impartial and objective assessment of any given problem.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
