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“You can choose when and when not to be stopped... Choose to be stopped after you die... when your work is done and done well.”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.”
“You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.”
“You can choose your family. You can choose people who will choose you back.”
Source: The Dreams of the Descendants
“You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.”
“You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care and I'll continue not to bother to brush my hair.' Or you can be a weak-willed person like me and think 'oh I'd better get my act together. And maybe my mother was right and I do need to put my hair back and tidy myself up a bit.' So I did tidy myself up a bit. But I do often resent the amount of time that it takes to pull yourself together to go on TV, I really do. If I sound bitter, then that accurately reflects how I feel about the subject.”
“You can chose if you want to be imagined or remembered.”
“You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!”
Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“You can claim that God is guiding you and revealing to you the answer or solution to your problem. Accept the truth that the nature of Infinite Intelligence is to respond to you, and you will receive an answer without the aid of any man. You can boldly affirm, “I am whole, perfect, strong, loving, illumined, prosperous and inspired.” As you continue to affirm these truths and feel and believe what you claim, without the help or cooperation of anyone, you will express what you feel to be true. Remember, whatever you attach to I AM, you become.”
“You can clear the land, plow the field, spread the fertilizer, and plant the corn. But you cannot make it rain. You cannot prevent an early frost. You cannot determine exactly what will happen in your life. The rain may or may not fall, but one thing is certain: you will get a harvest only if you planted something in the field. It's important to do everything in our power to ensure our success, but we also need to let the universe take its course.”
Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers
“You can climb out of your designer bag now. I’ve never actually seen someone try to fit inside a handbag. You gave it a good go. Let me try.”
Source: Lost in London
“You can climb the mountain with courage of concentration.”
“You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims.”
“You can close the shutters on your life and dwell in a dreamlike existence, poor in deeds but effervescent in thought.”
Source: Psicología de los eneatipos: AVARICIA
“You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.”
“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories”
“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”
“You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.”
Source: A Chain of Flames
“You can code tasks, not consciousness.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“You can coexist with people when you understand what they stand for.”
Source: Just Tyrus
“You can collapse the amount of time it takes to scale your startup by 1) fostering a nurturing, entrepreneurial environment, 2) one-on-one mentoring, and 3) a vision bigger than yourself paired with smaller, manageable milestones...to bring your future dream's work into today's work.”
“You can collect many friends by hiding your reality; but you can earn few genuine friends by showing your reality.”
“You can combine your silence and seriousness to hide your inherent ignorance.”
“You can come across a precipice not only in the mountains but in everywhere! If you don’t like a person, there, a precipice appears; if you meet a person with a different faith, there, a precipice appears! The more mature, the more tolerant and the wiser you become, the less precipice will appear in your life!”
“You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.”
“You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself. You're not going to be asking your parents.”
“You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.”
“You can come if you want, but I'm going with or without you.
Unless you're scared?”
Source: Scarred
“You can come into the rest of God through solitude.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You can come round to my flat." Toreth's voice changed, sliding subtly into something hard-edged but seductive. "I don't need chains to make you do what I want. I don't need anything. I can take whatever I want from you, however I want it, and you can't stop me.”
Source: Games & Players
“You can come see me for a visit anytime. It's like how the song goes: I'll be seeing you, in all the old familiar places. . .”
Source: Passenger
“You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.”
“You can come to your friends with a problem and they will most usually blurt out a set of orders based entirely upon their own lives, which they believe you should follow. There is no thought process that goes into it, no internalization, no ingestion of your own pain into their own stomachs. I believe this is why, about a million people come to me with their problems rather than turning to their closest friends and family members; because I'm like that ancient tree with protruding roots, you can sit under my branches and as you cry I will soak your tears into me. We don't actually need humans with their many thoughtless advices. We need to be sitting under trees, asking roots to share in our pains.”
“You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.”
“You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.”
“You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!”
“You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.”
“You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.”
“You can compensate for all of your vices except betrayal. Nothing you do can ever compensate for the pain caused by betrayal.”
“You can complain about the Republicans and Democrats, or you can be productive by voting for the Green Party.”
“You can complain about the small stuff, but it should be lighthearted, quippy, and avoid personal attacks. Being still is about having the ability to delay an emotional reaction and replace it with a preplanned response. The response is intentional and deliberate, not reactionary, and based on the qualities and attributes that you have already aspired to as part of your hero archetypes. You are choosing to sweat the small stuff, but you are choosing to do so with some grace, humor, and self-awareness. This isn’t easy. It can go wrong. It may take practice and keen observation of how people react to you. But don’t overthink it—just remember a few key principles. Incorporate humor and sarcasm when possible. Sarcasm is a uniquely American and British attribute, and I think we should embrace it. Smile. Don’t overdo it. Just sweat the small stuff enough to make sure the frustration valve is released a little bit.”
Source: Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
“You can complete a project by dropping it.”
“You can completely transform your life by transmuting your martian energy.”
“You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can’t compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, “They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.” It’s complete intolerance.”
“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.”
Source: Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)
“You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.”
“You can connect with anybody nowadays. You can literally go on there and leave a message for Oprah Winfrey. If you want to say something to Hillary Clinton, you can tweet her! That's something I don't think anybody saw coming. It's also a way for people who aren't Oprah or Hillary to make a name for themselves and let people know they're out there. It's not exclusive to people who get lucky in life. It's amazing.”
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
“You can conquer any aggressive action, with restraint and patient.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!