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“You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.”
“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
Source: Conversations with Capote
“You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.”
“You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler”
“You can't blame gravity for falling in love.”
“You can't blame me for who I am.”
“You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.”
Source: I, Lucifer
“You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.”
“You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.”
“You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.”
“You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go.”
“You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.”
“You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.”
“You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.”
“You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”
“You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.”
“You can't bomb a people just in case.”
“You can't bond with a male until you set your parents free.”
“You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?”
“You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.”
Source: Naked
“You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.”
“You can't break my heart. It's made of water.”
Source: In the Heart of America and Other Plays
“You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.”
“You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.”
“You can't break what's broken already.”
“You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.”
Source: Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.”
Source: The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
“You can't bring a duffel bag that says 'I Heart Cheese' on it, that's just offensive.”
“You can't bring tweezers on an airplane. If I'm on a plane and you try to hijack it with tweezers, I'll whip your ass, man. You think I'm going to be late because you've got tweezers and a bad attitude?”
“You can't buck the market.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.”
“You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.”
“You can't build a foundation on lies.”
“You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.”
“You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.”
“You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.”
“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”
“You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.”
“You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.”
Source: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
“You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.”
“You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.”
“You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same way, you can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better.”
“You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.”
Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
“You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.”
“You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.”
“You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.”
“You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.”
“You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals”