We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion.

We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.

We cannot conceive of Oedipus without a Sphinx, nor of Hamlet without a Ghost.

We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.

We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

We cannot regard foreign policy as something left over after defense policy or trade policy or fiscal policy has been extracted.

We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.

We note that two such curves C and Af, cannot coincide at more than a finite number of points ; ;

We cannot now speak of maximizing the value of the objective function, since this function is now known only in a probabilistic sense.

We cannot consider ourselves educated if we do not read ; ;

We cannot, of course, assign it any substance.

We may show, first, that there cannot possibly be an alternative other than the three typically represented by Bultmann, Barth, and Buri.

We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills.

We must yield to the divine will, he says ; we cannot pick and choose and accept only what we can understand.

We cannot possibly conceive an ' is ' except as belonging to some thing that is, or exists.

Said Romney: " We simply cannot live in a setting where a project of this scale has the potential of threatening human life, as has already been seen ".

In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.

We are in an age of rearmaments, but we on this side cannot accept that position ".

We cannot define a point except as ' something with no parts ', nor blindness except as ' the absence of sight in a creature that is normally sighted '.

The words were given in response to the Latin maxim: " Ignoramus et ignorabimus " or " We do not know, we cannot know ":

We cannot tell at what date the book received its present form, since there are no clear historical allusions in it.

" We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions ", as Theodor Fontane once said ... dwelling on imaginary wish fulfillments '.

We cannot build a water-tight theology promising physical healing, surely, for the most ' miracle-ridden ' Christian will die in the end, yielding to the natural processes of senescence.

We cannot understand today, but it was not taken seriously at all.

We may take her with us -- to California.

We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.

We use terms from our personal experience with individuals such as `` trust '', `` cheat '', and `` get tough ''.

We perform elaborate international exhortations and ceremonies with virtually no understanding of social cause and effect.

We were not, however, entirely unacquainted with the varying aspects of the street.

We shall return to these statements and deal with them more fully as the evidence for them accumulates.

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.

We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!

We and our friends are, of course, concerned with self-defense.

We must be ever alert that freedom does not wither through the careless amassing of restrictive controls or the lack of courage to deal boldly with the issues of the day.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

We are all, though many of us are snobbish enough to wish to deny it, in far closer sympathy with the art of the music-hall and picture-palace than with Chaucer and Cimabue, or even Shakespeare and Titian.

We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.

We find `` reluctant recruits '' whose values are not in line with their expected occupation's characteristics.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

We press him to conform to our comfortable conceptions and not to bruise our satisfactions with his word, and God's.

We do not defeat the good ones with this cruelty, but we add to their burden, while expecting them to bestow saintliness upon us in return for ostentatious church attendance and a few bucks a week, American cash.

Sir -- We are writing in reference to a recent `` suggestion '' made to the staff of the Public Health Nursing Service of Jersey City ( registered professional nurses with college background and varying experiences ).

We sympathize with Mr. Kennedy, but we feel bound to say that his budget review doesn't please us either, although for very different reasons.

We don't 'low nigras to walk on the same sidewalk with white men where I come from.

We tumbled to a stop in Deacon Gordon's cow hole, a low-lying bit of pasture with a muddy pool of water in its middle.

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.