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“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”
“You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!”
“You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
“You can't have genius without patience.”
Source: The Awakening of Helena Richie
“You can't have good comedy without drama in it.”
“You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.”
“You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.”
Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
“You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.”
“You can't have healing without sickness.”
“You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?”
Source: Saving Fish From Drowning
“You can't have it all, all at once. Who—man or woman—has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.”
“You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.”
“You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.”
“You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.”
Source: Rama Revealed
“You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.”
“You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
“You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.”
“You can't have occupation and human rights.”
“You can't have oil without oil spills.”
“You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.”
“You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.”
“You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.”
“You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.”
Source: The Soldiers of Halla
“You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.”
“You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.”
“You can't have real and authentic friendships unless you honor your feelings.”
“You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.”
“You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.”
Source: August Magic
“You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.”
“You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?”
“You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.”
“You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all over television, and then have these politicians run out there with a straight face and say that gay and lesbian relationships are a threat to the family. We are winning in the culture - which is why we'll ultimately win the political war.”
“You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.”
“You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.”
“You can't have somebody guide you through everything - some things you have to learn on your own.”
“You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.”
“You can't have something without nothing.”
Source: In My Own Way: An Autobiography, 1915-1965
“You can't have style if you don't have substance.”
“You can't have success without trust. The word trust embodies almost everything you can strive for that will help you to succeed. You tell me any human relationship that works without trust, whether it is a marriage or a friendship or a social interaction; in the long run, the same thing is true about business, especially businesses that deal with people.”
“You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.”
“You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.”
“You can't have the family farm without the family.”
“You can't have the fruits without the roots.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.”
“You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe...the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with the issues that this country needs to grapple with to determine its future.”
“You can't have the space for prosperity and success when you are obsessed with security. It is not possible to obtain unwavering security - physical, emotional, or economic - by having money. Keep in mind that security, like success, can be defined in many ways. If you focus less on how much your financial assets are worth, and more on what a creative and well-balanced individual you can be, security will take on a new meaning.”
“You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.”
“You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.”
“You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole.”
“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”