Y Quotes
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“You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you can do is to be very available as a character and actor to the people you're acting with. That's equally important, whether the camera's on the other person or on you.”
“You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.”
“You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.”
“You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.”
“You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“You can't doubt so much, Psyche”
Source: Psyche in a Dress
“You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.”
“You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.”
“You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.”
Source: You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
“You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.”
“You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.”
“You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer”
“You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.”
“You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.”
Source: Flet: A Novel
“You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.”
“You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.”
“You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float.”
“You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.”
Source: Dreams of Sleep
“You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.”
“You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.”
“You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.”
Source: Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday
“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”
“You can't easily break out of this cycle of love. It's always here and there up and down.. pain and joy, this wonderful feeling of being in love, which will come to an end later, is so dominating through your entire life. And you cannot escape it.”
“You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.”
“You can't eat a winner's plaque.”
“You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.”
“You can't eat books, sweetheart.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“You can't eat compliments.”
“You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.”
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
Source: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library
“You can't eat language but it eases thirst.”
Source: The Tenants: A Novel
“You can't eat straight A's.”
Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
“You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.”
Source: Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
“You can't eat tomatoes because they're tainted with deadly salmonella. First there was tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?”
“You can't eat your friends and have them too”
“You can't edit a blank page”
“You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.”
“You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.”
“You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.”
“You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.”
“You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.”
“You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.”
“You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body.”
“You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.”
“You can't enjoy your life if you don't enjoy YOURSELF.”
“You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.”
“You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.”
“You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.”
“you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.”
Source: The Bleeding Heart: A Novel
“You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.”