Y Quotes
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“You can't go wrong with love.”
“You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.”
“You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!”
“You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said.”
Source: The Sisters Grimm: Book Nine: The Council of Mirrors
“You can't grow a beard if you shave”
“You can't grow and gain confidence from wearing the same thing every day.”
“You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.”
Source: How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward
“You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.”
“You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.”
“You can't grow strong without resistance.”
“You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.”
“You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.”
“You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“You can't handle the truth!”
“You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.”
“You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.”
“You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.”
“You can't hate and ball at the same time”
“You can't hate anybody till you hate yourself and you can't love anybody till you love yourself.”
“You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.”
“You can't hate somebody for the rest of their lives over one mistake.”
“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”
“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
“You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.”
Source: Malcolm X on Afro-American History
“You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.”
“You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.”
“You can't have 'yes' people around you.”
“You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down its growth rate. You can't have kids coming out of college, half of them can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree. We have to get our economy going.”
“You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.”
“You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.”
“You can't have a bad time at Disney World. It's not allowed. They have hidden electronic surveillance cameras everywhere, and if they catch you failing to laugh with childlike wonder, they lock you inside a costume representing a beloved Disney character such as Goofy and make you walk about in the Florida heat getting grabbed and leaped on by violently excited children until you have learned your lesson.”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“You can't have a better past.”
“You can't have a better tomorrow if
you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.”
“You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.”
“You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.”
“You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.”
“You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.”
“You can't have a democracy with an armed political party willing to bomb its neighbor without the consent of its government or, you know, just deciding, "Well, let's create enough chaos and discord by lobbing rockets. And so the reality is in order for Lebanon to succeed and we want Lebanon's democracy to succeed the process is going to the Lebanese government's eventually going to have to deal with Hezbollah.”
“You can't have a director say, "Just be you"; you have to have an aim. It's like when you throw darts, you have to know where the bullseye is. You can't just say, "No no no no no, drop the darts. Just stand. We're going to film you." You have to get there indirectly. You have to have me doing something, and then you can get "me."”
“You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.”
“You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.”
“You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.”
“You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write.”
“You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.”
“You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.”
“You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.”
“You can't have a great university without a great library.”
“You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.”
“You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.”