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 kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.”
“You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.”
“You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams.”
“You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.”
“You can't know about marriage until you try it.”
“You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.”
“You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.”
“You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are”
“you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!”
“You can't know too much, but you can say too much.”
“You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.”
“You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction”
“You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.”
“You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“You can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
“You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!”
“You can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.”
“You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.”
“You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.”
Source: Circle of friends ; Silver wedding
“You can't lead a true life without suffering”
Source: A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
“You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.”
“You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.”
“You can't lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve!”
“You can't lead from the crowd.”
“You can't lead me down that rode.”
“You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?”
Source: Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others
“You can't lead people you don't believe in.”
“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
“You can't lead without taking risk.”
Source: Next Generation Leader
“You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
“You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.”
Source: Desert Notes and River Notes
“You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know”
“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”
“You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.”
Source: The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
“You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.”
“You can't learn less.”
“You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.”
“You can't learn pathos or profundity.”
“You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.”
“You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.”
“You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.”
“You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.”
“You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.”
“You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.”
“You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!”
“You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.”
“You can't leave civilization behind entirely.”
“You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.”