Famous Quotes & Sayings

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.

Kofi Annan

made it quite clear that the United Nations cannot condone the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Azim Premji

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

The process is in trouble, we cannot continue this way, ... One option is simply for us to remove ourselves from the process.

Tom Bissell

I guess I would say that most of what I've learned about storytelling derives from novels and short stories. I cannot think of a novel or story, or a novelist or story writer, who thinks in terms of three-act structure.

Tim Gunn

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

Dirk Kempthorne

What we cannot have is grandparents competing with grandchildren for state resources.

George Clooney

What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away and hope that this will somehow disappear. It's the first genocide of the 21st century.

Ksenia Solo

You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We cannot have the fruits of the gospel without its roots.

James E. Faust

All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.

Jose Carreras

I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.

Kate Winslet

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Kate Winslet

Being told to cut off and walk away from a child - I cannot imagine it. I think I'd rather die.

Lester B. Pearson

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Lester B. Pearson

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

Lillian Hellman

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

This will mean that they cannot imagine life without consumer-electronics devices.

Gary Shteyngart

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Elon Musk

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.

Elfriede Jelinek

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

Joe Paterno

We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.

John Eldredge

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.