#we cannot

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#because #cannot #developed #ignorant #know

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? ↗

— John Lennon

#against #any #asks #basic #cannot

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#cannot #child #developed #formed #him

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#cannot #cap #council #effect #general

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. ↗

— Carl von Ossietzky

#asleep #cannot #conscience #our #own

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

#defend #destruction #eventually #fact #inescapable

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#cannot #give #profit #we cannot #wisdom

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#anything #being #cannot #conceive #dissolved

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#alone #anxious #because #been #bring

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#between #both #cannot #caused #change