The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
You have to teach your algorithm what it can do and what it cannot do because, otherwise, there is a risk that the algorithms will learn the tricks of the old cartels.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.