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“You can't reach your potential by remaining in a past due season. Your breakthrough is coming. Strongholds are breaking. Get Ready!”
“You can’t read ancient Greek?” I asked.
“And you can’t tell a strawberry from a yam,” she retorted.”
Source: The Burning Maze
“You can’t read any genuine history—as that of Herodotus or the Venerable Bede—without perceiving that our interest depends not on the subject but on the man,—on the manner in which he treats the subject and the importance he gives it. A feeble writer and without genius must have what he thinks a great theme, which we are already interested in through the accounts of others, but a genius—a Shakespeare, for instance—would make the history of his parish more interesting than another’s history of the world.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“You can't really appreciate how high you can fly until you've also realized how low you can fall. - The Malwatch”
“You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
“You can’t really imagine the pain of someone breaking down, even when they’re part of you. Holding the unlit end of a burning cigarette will never tell you how quietly the other end is turning to ash.”
“You can’t really listen when you’re talking, you can’t really talk when you’re listening”
Source: sciVive
“You can't really lose a game you are not supposed to play”
“You can’t really plan for the success of a biological organism without considering the context of its ecological environment. In the same way, you can’t really plan for the success of an corporate entity without considering the context of its economic and otherwise broader environment. Furthermore, beginning with this macro context ensures that we are focusing on “how can we add value to the customers? How can we serve others?”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“You can't really prepare yourself for a life without someone you love, each day the rise in the morning just gets easier, time passes and life goes on. It's as simple and as complicated as that”
“You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“You can't really trust any man who is religious. If your interests conflict with the religion the man breaks his word and betrays you and thinks he's right to do so.”
Source: Swastika Night
“You can't rebuild trust after infidelity with a casual approach but your rigorous honesty and changed behavior can be the greatest catalyst to rekindle your committed relationship.”
Source: Attracting A Specific Person: How to Use the Law of Attraction to Manifest a Specific Person, Get Back Your Ex and Manifest a Vibrant Relationship.
“You Can’t receive what you don’t sow”
“You can't reclaim lost time, but you can seize missed opportunities.”
“You can't reduce passion and flair and eating ham to numbers, sir!”
Source: The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics
“You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts..."
--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes”
Source: My Father's Ashes: A Young Man's Journey Through His Father's Life
“You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.”
“You can’t rely on modeling uncertainties to deliver certainty.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“You can't remain in a state of sheer panic and terror indefinitely, and both had run their course. Ever since, I've thought that must be why we cry: our bodies are coping with something our minds and hearts can't absorb by themselves.”
“You can’t repair character flaws with positive social media posts”
“You Can't Replace A Star with A Lightbulb”
“You can't restore anything you've previously done, but you can face up to it. You can enlighten the reality. You can entreat forgiveness. And then let God decide and do the rest.”
“You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.”
Source: Before Ever After
“You can't reverse the time.. But can revolves back..”
“You can’t rewrite history the way that you want it. History is a factual thing.”
Source: True Blue
“You can’t rewrite yesterday, but you can draw a better tomorrow.”
“You can't rid yourself of all the odd ducks in just a few years. The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. That's why we've lowered the kindergarten age year after year until now we're almost snatching them from the cradle.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“You can't ride the wave without getting hit by something.”
Source: The Lacetier
“You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.”
“You can’t run alongside your grown children with sunscreen and ChapStick on their hero’s journey.” -- Anne Lamott, “Twelve Truths I Learned from Writing to Life”
“You can't run at your maximum if you're always pushing your limits. Neither can your team.”
Source: 7 Secrets of Building Elite Sales Teams: Proven Ways to Increase Sales Results -- For Sales Managers and Sales Executives
“You can’t run away from this fight. You can’t hide. You can’t pretend it’s not happening. You can’t pray it goes away. You can’t close your eyes and ignore it. You can’t bury your head in the sand. You’re in this war whether you like it or not. If you’re a dove, you had better get real and evolve into a retaliator. You need to fight back. You need to stand up for yourself and your cause. You need to stop being lunch. Stop being nice and polite. Your enemies aren’t. Stop being weak and meek. Your enemies aren’t. Stop being humble and respectful of all opinions. Your enemies aren’t. Stop being gentlemanly or ladylike. This is a dirty war. We have all been dragged into the gutters and sewers. You need to fight your way out or drown in shit. Retaliate. Don’t sit there and take it. Stop being a pussy. Become a lion and roar. Let the world hear your voice.”
Source: Take Them to the Morgue
“You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.”
“You can't run away from yourself. The destination will always be you. I only stopped running away when I made myself into the home I no longer wanted to run away from. I wish I'd come to that realisation sooner.”
Source: Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
“You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you”
“You can't rush art." I crumpled another lost attempt and tossed it behind me. "Besides, patience is a virtue."
"It's a virtue until it's a waste of time," he pointed out.
The cello unleashed a few notes that sounded strangely bright for such an instrument, and Hal nodded in its direction. "See; even a musical instrument agrees with me.”
Source: Paper Crowns
“You can't save anyone from themselves. They have to actually want to do the work.”
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the
hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.”
“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.
- p. 47, The Brothers Silver”
Source: The Brothers Silver
“You can't save everyone, but you sure as hell don't stop trying. -Rowan, Sin & Salvation Series”
“You can’t save everyone.
It’s not an option.”
Source: Slawter
“You can't save everyone, you know."
I can't save”
“You can't save someone from their own decisions.”
Source: Tethers
“You can’t save someone who thinks your kindness is a trap.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way”
“You can’t say ‘Oh my stars.’ ‘Oh my stars’ is not a thing, and it makes no sense. The whole point of that saying is that you’re calling out to someone for help, and stars are not ‘someone,’ and certainly not capable of helping.” The words were out and gone before I realized what was happening. Grace just stared back at me, and I wanted so badly to shake the girl and make her realize that life couldn’t be all overalls and pink rain boots and guardian stars. I wanted to make her realize that sometimes you had to work.”
Source: Never Trust A Happy Song
“You can't say you have faith in God if you can't trust Him with everything; neither can you say you trust God if you lack faith in Him. Without faith, you cannot please God; and without trust, you cannot have faith in God. Heb. 11:6”
Source: God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
“You can’t say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person’s complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup.”
Source: Me Before Them
“You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.”
Source: Something Real