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“You can do well if you think well and do what you think well. A good combination of positive thinking and action is a great recipe for success.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Source: Free Will
“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.”
“You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”
Source: New York
“You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot”
Source: How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life
“You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.”
“You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will there be everything we have hoped for?’ When you realise there’s so little hope left, it is like seeing an entire shadow all over the world.”
Source: Secrets Clad in Light
“You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.”
“You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.”
“You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.”
Source: Essay on the Freedom of the Will
“You can do whatever the heck you want to do. You can love whoever you want to love. You can be whoever you want to be, Anyone who says you can’t, no matter what religion or bullshit they are hiding behind, are only telling you that you can’t be you because they’re terrified of the freedom to be who they want to be.”
Source: The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy
“You can do whatever you’re doing with your life; but once you forget there’s a God, you are on your own. -MillYentei D.Y.”
“You can do whatever you want,
I am on baller alert!”
“You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.”
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
“You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.”
Source: Magic Graves
“You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.”
“You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.”
“You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.”
“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
“You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.”
“You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.”
“You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.”
“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses)”
Source: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.”
“You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.”
“You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way.”
“You can dream and then take the necessary actions to bring them to fruition.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.”
“You can dream of anything you like, whenever you like, and as much as you like. But when you do, always remember that some dreams will never come true! Perfection is one of them!”
“You can dream of having a lot of money, while others are earning and making money every day.”
“You can dream the American Dream
But you sleep with the lights on
And wake up with a scream”
“You can dress a pig up in satin and lace and its still a pig."
Francis smiled hazily. "Are you calling my intended a pig, Charles?"
Charles raised a dark eyebrow. "Intended what, Francis? You surely cant be having respectable inclinations towards this girl. The bullet hit your arm, not your head.”
Source: Ruthless
“You can dress attractively without being immodest. Within the Lord’s guidelines, there is room for you to be lively, vibrant, and beautiful both in your dress and in your actions.”
“You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.”
“You can dress up a chimpanzee in a fancy suit, but that doesn't turn the chimpanzee into a human, but if that chimp can share his meal with another hungry chimp, then that chimp is more human than all of the selfish humanity combined. Appearance doesn't make you human, your behavior does - your accountability does - your sense of community does.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“You can dress up a person all you want, but you can’t dress up their eyes…”
Source: Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel
“You can dress up Hate but you can’t stop its stench”
“You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.”
“You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.”
“You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.”
“You can drink out of Lincoln's nose. They got the Hard Rock t-shirts. They got Elvis, too.”
“You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.”
Source: Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
“You can drink until you're corned, pickled, and salted... but I'm still going to hold you to our bargain."
She gave him a glance of seething annoyance. "I had no such plan in mind. However, I'll drink as much champagne as I want. After all, I can't recall a time when you ever came to my bed sober.”
Source: Stranger in My Arms
“You can drink your soup ice-cold, but it's no longer soup; you can do eccentric things in life, but if you haven't been able to give meaning to those eccentric things, it's like drinking cold soup!”
“You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.”
“You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you hit Wales and you're in another country! Also, wherever you are in England it's still raining.”
“You can drive a car all your life without knowing how the engine works, because the goal of driving is to get from one place to the next, regardless how it's done. But to live without understanding how we think, why we feel the way we feel, what directs our actions is to miss what is most important in life, which is the experience itself.”
“You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.”