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 retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.”
Source: Angle of Repose
“You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).”
“You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.”
“You can't revise a blank page.”
“You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.”
“You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.”
“You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.”
“You can't ride home on a bowl of goat.”
“You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary.”
Source: You Are Not Special: … And Other Encouragements
“You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.”
“You can't ride two horses with one behind.”
Source: Three Films of Woody Allen
“You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.”
“You can't rob a bank on charm and personality.”
Source: Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber
“You can't rock the boat without being told you're off your rocker. Entrepreneurs' greatest asset is their contrarian way of thinking, their tendency to zig when others zag, to go in a new direction. But many people don't give themselves permission to get going for fear that they will be called crazy. I say not only is crazy a compliment, but if you're not called crazy when you start something new, then you're not thinking big enough!”
“You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.”
“You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime.”
“You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.”
“You can't run a business without taking risks.”
“You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!”
“You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.”
“You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.”
“You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.”
“You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.”
“You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.”
Source: Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police
“You can't run a without taking risks.”
“You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.”
“You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.”
“You can't run away from yourself”
Source: Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics
“You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.”
Source: 33 Snowfish
“You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.”
“You can't run game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of you.”
“You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?”
“You can't run with vampires. 'Cuz they're fast." -Bella "Yea? well, we're faster.”
“You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.”
“You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.”
“You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.”
Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.”
Source: Till You Hear from Me: A Novel
“You can't save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough.”
“You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“You can't save kids just with vaccines.”
“You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“You can't save souls in an empty church.”
Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy
“You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.”
“You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.”
“You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.”
“You can't say "the people of Aleppo" because the majority of the people of Aleppo are living in the area under the control of the government, so you cannot talk about the people of Aleppo.”
“You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.”
“You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.”
“You can't say British Columbia's carbon tax is exactly the same as increasing hydroelectricity rates in another province. They're very different mechanisms, but we shouldn't deny that both of them can have an impact, and that's why we're talking about this broadly.”