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“You can't search for the truth with integrity if you're only looking to find the kind that benefits you.”
Source: The Disappearances
“You can't see and feel the sky if you keep looking to the ground.”
“You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it. ‘Now! Let’s have a real good talk’ reduces everyone to silence. ‘I must get a good sleep tonight’ ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wasted
on a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‘Them as asks’ (at any rate ‘as asks too importunately’) don’t get. Perhaps
can’t.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“You can’t see it, but you gave me a raging hard-on.”
“One-track mind.”
“It’s a good track.”
Source: Threat of Danger
“You can't see the light without darkness, take a look at the dark side of another point of view, you will find the meaning of darkness are essentially”
“You can’t see the world from your window and likewise the world cannot see you as well! Go out, come nearer to the world!”
“You can’t see yourself biting someone’s neck, is that it?” Raven laughed softly. “I can’t do it either. Yuck. Well…” She blushed, a faint pink stain spreading across her creamy skin. “Mikhail has a way of making it…” She trailed off.
Shea found herself blushing, too. “Yeah, I know what you mean. Jacques seems to have that same way about him.”
Source: Dark Desire
“You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.”
“You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.”
“You can’t separate an understanding of investing from an understanding of business — the two go together. To achieve great success in investing, it is essential to have a holistic understanding of business.”
“You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.”
[Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
“And you? What’s your reason to hate me?”
Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.”
Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?”
Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
Source: The Alchemy Fire Murder
“You can’t set sail without hoisting your anchor first”
Source: Journey to Your Self - How to Heal from Trauma: Written by Someone Who Did
“You can’t settle for good when you’re called to be great.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
“You can't shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he's done.”
“You can't shape people, just like you can't shape wood. You've got to find the heart and work from there. There's no such thing as scrap, not wood, not people.”
Source: Un cadáver en el Koryo (Calle negra nº 29)
“You can't shave a cat with a shoe.”
Source: SIMPLE TRIPLE STANDARD
“You can't shoot... one by one everyone will gone... once and forever and in the end as for and one will be the survivor.”
Source: Reddit Collection
“You can't simply will yourself to like things, either. As Jeff Bezos has observed, 'One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves.”
Source: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“You can't sit around expecting others to know what you want if you don't tell them. And you can't sit around waiting to be acknowledged. That's the chick way. You have to ask for what you want and demand acknowledgment. That's the dude way.”
Source: Summer Fridays
“You can't sit next to me. You'll ruin my game."
"What game?" she says. "You're a white guy wearing a gold chain. You have no game.”
Source: Best Kind of Broken
“You can’t sit on your ass and wait for things to miraculously happen for you.”
Source: Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power
“you can’t skip the uncertainty of not knowing who you are. You can’t skip the reality of having an uncertain identity. It’s often the hardest part of grief, because unlike shifting feelings that can resolve themselves in minutes or hours, shifting identities can take years to resolve. Sometimes who you are is “suspended” for a very long time before you feel like you’ve found solid footing again.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“You can't sleep beside me,' I hissed.
'I'm not.' With the edge of his blanket in hand, he draped it, along with his arm, over me.
The heavy weight of his appendage settled at my waist, stunning me for a few precious moments. 'What do you call this, then?'
'I'm sleeping with you.'
My eyes opened wide. 'How is that any different?'
'There's a huge difference.' His warm breath coasted over my cheek, causing my pulse to dip and then rise.
I stared at the darkness, every part of my body focused on the feel of his arm around me. 'You can't sleep with me, Hawke.'
'And I can't have you freezing or getting sick. It's too dangerous to light a fire, and unless you'd rather I got someone else to sleep with you, there really aren't many other options.'
'I don't want anyone else to sleep with me.'
'I already knew that,' he replied, his tone both teasing and smug.
Heat blasted my cheeks. 'I don't want anyone to sleep with me.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“You can’t solve a problem by worrying, but rather by doing. Do something about it.”
“You can't solve a problem unless you know the problem.”
Source: Goodbye Girl
“You can’t solve everything with philosophical quotes and mouse clicks. If I throw you in a lion’s cage, do you think it’ll care how many books you’ve read, or how fast you can multiply five-digit numbers? He will come for your throat. That’s how some people are. They’re just animals.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“You can't solve problems until you understand the other side." –Jeffrey Manber”
Source: The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
“You can't solve today's new problems with yesterday's old processes”
“You can't solve tomorrow's problems today, but you can put some meat on those skinny bones.”
Source: Fever 1793
“You can’t speak life to others if you don’t know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can’t breathe.”
Source: On Becoming Restored
“You can't speak with calm about a person who never knew calm; of Bolivar you can only speak from mountaintops, or amid thunder and lightning, or with a fistful of freedom in one hand and the corpse of tyranny at your feet.”
“You can't spell "parentry" without "try." Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make with your kids are the same ones your parents made with you. At least you know how those turn out.”
Source: I Am America
“You can’t spend his money if you’re dead.”
“I’ll acquire expensive habits in the afterlife.”
“There’s a difference between confidence and arrogance.”
Source: Six of Crows
“You can't sprinkle pepper in your neighbor’s soup and expect your own to stay sweet.”
Source: Quote: +/-
“You can't sprout and grow if you're soaked in misery.”
“You can't stalk me by going through my social media, because I post what I want you to see.”
“You can't stalk me by going through my social media, because of what I post. It is what I want you to see.”
“You can't START OVER...Just start from where you're at!”
Source: Shine Little Light: Bittersweet Memories of Miracles & Wonders
“You can't start the change unless dare to be different.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“You can't stay asleep for a long time while driving on a curved road ! And dear friend, be awake because the roads of this world are mostly curved!”
“You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.”
Source: The Rose Petal Beach
“You can’t stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple!”
Source: *57* Must Use Words in Every Piece of Marketing that You Do for Your Business
“You can't stay in your parents home and live on their wealth and call yourself a Man!”
“You can’t stay locked in your room and expect either you to find love or love to find you.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.”
Source: Like The Starlings
“You can't step into greater opportunities whilst overlooking smaller ones”
“You can’t step into what’s ahead while watching what’s already gone.”
“You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have no such motivation. I can't have. I'm a witcher: an artificially created mutant. I kill monsters for money. I defend children when their parents pay me to. If Nilfgaardian parents pay me, I'll defend Nilfgaardian children. And even if the world lies in ruin - which does not seem likely to me - I'll carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster kills me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me.”
Source: Krew elfów
“You can't
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.”