Cannot Quotes
On what cannot be explained, shrunk, or ignored.
Several quotes here sit at the edge of science and philosophy - the statistical, non-deterministic nature of quantum experiments, and the strange fact that a mind cannot fully comprehend itself. Make offers a more constructive counterpoint.
It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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The Harvey Weinstein scandal was a clear indicator of the situation in Hollywood, and I cannot say that it doesn't happen in Bollywood.
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.
I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.
Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
As an already high-demand, low-density military asset, we cannot afford to lose the JSTARS's BMC2/ISR unparalleled capability.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.
Judges are real people with real-world experiences and backgrounds. We cannot expect them to erase their experiences and backgrounds from the mindset that informs their judicial decision-making.
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For related reflections on resolve and permanence, see Government and He.
