Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.”
“You can't fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.”
“You can't fight hearts and minds with money.”
“You can't fight human nature. Ego is going to get the best of everyone. You're going to think you can trust someone when you can't. People who come in the Big Brother house have a strong sense of self and often it gets handed to them when they get evicted.”
“You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.”
Source: Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
“You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.”
Source: The Lonely Men
“You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.”
“You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.”
“You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past”
“You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.”
“You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.”
“You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And to grow in that grace, you need two things: time and community.”
“You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.”
“You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.”
Source: Postcards From the Edge
“You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.”
“You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.”
“You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c."”
“You can't find peace by avoiding life.”
“You can't find peace by hiding from life”
“You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.”
“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”
Source: The House of the Spirits: A Novel
“You can't find that moment when you became somebody else, because everything is in flux. So as it were, the torturous period where you are changing, you are transforming - I think that can be very hard on somebody's system. You don't necessarily realize that is what's happening.”
“You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.”
“You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.”
“You can't find the soul with a scalpel.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.”
“You can't find what doesn't exist, but you can create it.”
“You can't find what you don't go looking for.”
Source: Can't Hurry Love
“You can't find your voice if you don't use it.”
“You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.”
Source: London Is the Best City in America
“You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!”
“you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.”
“You can't fit your clothes well and look your best if you don't know what you're working with.”
“You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.”
“You can't fix a fundamentally broken law; you've got to replace it. That's why Congress can't save Obamacare with a few tweaks, despite what its defenders say. No quick fix can correct the main flaw: The law takes power away from patients and hands it to bureaucrats.”
“You can't fix everything in life; you must leave some things unfixed to move forward! Do not feel bad about this, because you have no time to fix everything! Leave the unfixed there and move forward!”
“You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it was a 2 by 4.--T-SHIRT”
“You can't fix stupid.”
Source: I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability
“You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.”
Source: I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability
“You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid”
“You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.”
“You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.”
“You can't fly unless you let yourself fall”
“You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.”
“You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.”
“You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.”
“You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.”
“You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!”
“You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights”