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“You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You can believe whatever you want, Líder, but know this: A war is coming, and I hope you wake up from this dream of utopia, or you'll soon die in your sleep.”
Source: Sabre Black
“You can believe your life into any state you want, he decided. Reality is plastic. You mold it. You pretend things into existence.”
Source: Night Side of the River
“You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.”
“You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.”
“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”
Source: A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
“You can best serve your country only by doing your best in your job!”
“You can bet - a good chance of Hillary [Clinton], a good chance of [Donald] Trump - but not 100% in either case.”
“You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.”
“You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.”
“You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.”
“You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.”
“You can bitch as much as you like but you will be listened only if you show others that you care”
“You can bite me if you want. I want you to.”
“You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton]. I just do. I just think he squandered his presidency the night that woman delivered that pizza to him, and if he hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are and there would be a lot of people who are alive today who aren't.”
“You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.”
“You can blame everyone for your circumstances, but that will not change the fact that you still must live in them. Change does not come until you take responsibility for your choices and proceed to do something. You must make the change happen. You must do it. In truth, no one else is to blame if things fail to change.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.”
“You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.”
“You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.”
“You can blindly follow the advice of government, or you can do your own research to understand what is true and what is not. The latter may save your life.”
“You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.”
“You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up seven is still a function of random luck.”
“You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star.”
“You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.”
“You can blow the whistle at any time you like. And the sooner you do it, the less painful it will be. Don't wait until you crash into the buffers and there's a mangled wreck around you.”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.”
“You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.”
“You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”
Source: East of Eden
“You can boldly overcome every circumstance.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.”
“You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings," Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. "Huh?" She shrugged. "That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.”
Source: Destined
“You can both lose yourself and find yourself in laughter.”
Source: The Simple Book of Infinity
“You can brainwash yourself to make yourself believe you are in heaven or in hell, at any given moment.”
“You can break a body, but you can never break a spirit that chooses to rise despite the hurt.”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“You can break a man with hope.”
Source: Jude
“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
Source: Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
“You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.”
“You can break my heart not my spirit.”
“You can bring changes to your country if you have a victorious mentality”
“You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.”
“You can bring more than all the information in a library to a person's home via the internet, but you can never bring that mysterious atmosphere of libraries, that interesting smell which takes you to the past!”
“You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.”
“You can bring the blanket and your emotional support vodka.”
Source: Unhinged
“You can bring together the body's various systems to fine tune the body and mind in order to navigate life's ups and downs in a way that minimizes stress and maximizes well-being and satisfaction.”
“You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.”
“You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.”
“You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.”
“You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.”