You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

The past cannot be cured.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown.

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

Stop relying only on technology. Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.