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“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“You can't possibly be right for everything.”
“You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.”
Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel
“You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.”
“You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)”
“You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?”
Source: Empire Falls
“You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.”
“You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.”
“You can't possibly spend a lifetime with anybody and know them.”
“You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?”
“You can't praise what you don't prize.”
Source: Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
“You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”
“You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.”
“You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.”
“You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.”
“You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.”
“You can't predict the future,
but you can follow your dreams.”
“You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.”
“You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave”
“You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.”
“You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.”
“You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.”
“You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.”
“You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.”
“You can't print everything and that's not good for filmmaking, because you wanna have as many options as possible and print as much as you can, but if you're going to shoot a film - an independent movie on film, the only way to really do it is to print your selects.”
“You can't process me with a normal brain.”
“You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)
“You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.”
“You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.”
“You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.”
Source: The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale
“You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.”
“You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.”
“You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.”
“You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.”
“You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.”
Source: Bittersweet
“You can't push anything to happen if you can't push a blanket off your body at fajr.”
“You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.”
“You can't put a limit anything.”
“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
“You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.”
“You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.”
“You can't put a price tag on preparation for a pandemic.”
“You can't put a title card at the head of the movie and say, "Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane."”
“You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.”
“You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.”
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“You can't put civil rights on the ballot.”
“You can't put cuffs on Mr. Cluck! What will the kids think?" Stuart Bagget”
“You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.”