Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions measurements and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love beauty friendship or decency for example?
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine and man cannot live without love.
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter control or singly cope with.
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because and I am not making this up he had a pet cat.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
I cannot say who precisely came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
I can live without money but I cannot live without love.
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities treatment centers homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately although it is true it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience we suffer.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams it will transcend them.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits he cannot feel old no matter what his years may be.
Our individual lives cannot generally be works of art unless the social order is also.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
For a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations for Nature cannot be fooled.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence it can only be attained through understanding.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another his education is incomplete.
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry but by demonstrating that all peoples cry laugh eat worry and die it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other we may even become friends.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it friends make life a lot more fun.
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities treatment centers homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal safe abortion.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress with its trials and its errors its successes and its setbacks can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy therefore is education.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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.
It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.
Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
I know to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
We can live without religion and meditation but we cannot survive without human affection.
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
People who don't travel cannot have a global view all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Heat cannot be separated from fire or beauty from The Eternal.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
From the age of fifteen dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion as a mere sentiment is to me a dream and a mockery.
When love is at its best one loves so much that he cannot forget.
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
We may give without loving but we cannot love without giving.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Passion you see can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
We cannot banish dangers but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
Advertising is a racket like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.