Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Snowden

All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Allegations of hate crime strike at the heart of our community and cannot be tolerated.

Mahatma Gandhi

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle

A judge's own values and perspectives on cases cannot help but have a major influence,

The five directors cannot be forced to resign; hence there is no vacancy to which new PCGG directors can be elected.

The importance of these devices cannot be overstated.

The importance of exports is critical to our economy. Thus, any disturbance in port operations cannot be dismissed lightly.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world

Alan Greenspan

A good part of this expansion is a direct function of the decline in real equity premiums. That cannot go on indefinitely.

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

All you have to look at is how much energy Russia supplies to Europe. This shows you cannot exclude Russia.

Ron Luce

The generation that cannot be changed by the world is the generation that will change the world.

The German chancellor has damaged German relations with the United States in ways that cannot be easily repaired.

The economy has been growing at a sub-par pace for five quarters now and we cannot see that situation changing over the next year or so.

Lawrence Summers

The dollar cannot and should not be a tool of trade policy.

Mark Twain

The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Indira Gandhi

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

The leader who cares for his subject cannot be vanquished even if all his enemies become united.

The lawsuit is pending and we cannot comment.

The law is not working. It cannot work. It will not work. After the law, we have continued trading with other countries, receiving foreign partners.

The launch cannot be described as a total failure, as the rocket functioned in a regular way.

The Internet model has been that carriers cannot interfere with the choices that consumers make.

Jonathan Zittrain

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

Larry Coker

The last five years have been a good five years. But my concern is the next five years and to make sure we are going in the right direction. You cannot stay the same. We have to go in the right direction with the right staff.

Rene Descartes

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

The longer the oil prices stay at this level, the more of a weight it puts on the market. That said, unemployment claims reflect the current strength of the economy. But the perception is that the current strength cannot be sustained with oil prices at these levels. As a result, the market is having a hard time making much progress to the upside.

The living conditions down there are horrible, but with what we have to accomplish, we'll be working so hard we won't be concerned with ourselves. We've seen the pictures on TV and we've seen the still photos in newspapers and so forth, but until you go and travel those streets and see everything yourself, you cannot imagine or comprehend what has happened down there. It's gut-wrenching.

Noam Chomsky

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

Mencius

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

Melody Beattie

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

Pete Domenici

the constant carping that we cannot do it because of environmental reasons.