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 fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.”
“You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.”
“You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.”
Source: Across the Great Barrier
“You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.”
“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“You can't force music; It just has to come to you.”
“You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.”
“You can't force people to buy a product, and then if they don't buy it, you fine them.”
“You can't force someone to learn. You present these beautiful lines that have so much to do with the world today and let them fall where they will.”
“You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.”
“You can't force someone to sell property in America.”
“You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.”
“You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves”
Source: Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
“You can't force yourself to be something you are not.”
“You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.”
“You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.”
“You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'”
“You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.”
“You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.”
“You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.”
“You can't fulfill your calling in your comfort zone!”
“You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.”
Source: Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
“You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.”
“You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.”
“You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.”
“You can't get a body like mine in a bottle unless you push real hard.”
“You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?”
“You can't get a friend more loyal than your dog.”
“You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.”
“You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.”
“You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.”
“You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.”
“You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.”
“You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.”
“You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.”
“You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.”
“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
“You can't get ahead while getting even.”
“You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.”
“You can't get AIDS if you touch, hug, kiss, hold hands with someone who is infected. Don't be afraid of us - we are all the same!”
“You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.”
“You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.”
“You can't get angry just because you can't control the world as you please.”
“You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.”
“You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.”
“You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.”
“You can't get any more patriotic than dying for the country.”
“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.”