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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”
“You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.”
“You cannot control what others think of you, but you can control what you think of yourself. Position yourself for success, and place all your doubts and fears on the shelf. Believe in your worth, let your dreams keep you motivated, and you will excel in the realm of success.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”
Source: The Power and the Glory
“You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.”
“You cannot convert people beyond your own conversion.”
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.”
“You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even the Blue Dogs in the House have proposed nothing to add to the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase the demand by covering new people.”
“You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you.”
“You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.”
“You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's plan is for you to create anything-everything-whatever you want.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“You cannot create any originality while acting with the herd, because the herd you are in wants uniformity, not differentiation! Originality only becomes possible when you stand out from the herd.”
“You cannot create employees without first creating employers.”
Source: Secretary Jack Kemp Addresses the National Alliance of Business: Getting America and the World Moving Again : Democractic Capitalism in a New Millennium of Freedom : Washington, D.C., October 7, 1991
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.”
“You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.”
Source: The Secret Daily Teachings
“You cannot create new opportunities in life if you keep harping on the past.”
Source: Watch Out! It's Nolan! (A Courageous Tale About a Boy Who Overcame His Bullies by Being Fearless and Standing up for Himself).
“You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.”
“You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.”
“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”
Source: A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre
“You cannot create what you want by moving away from what you don't want.”
“You cannot criticise a man who is doing something while sitting down.”
“You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.”
“You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.”
Source: Selected essays
“You cannot cross the ocean before leaving the shore.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.”
“You cannot cure racism with more racism.”
“You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.”
“You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.”
“You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.”
“You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.”
“You cannot deal with grief, not really. It is not a monster you can slay and be done with. Grief is an ambush predator, and we are the prey. It stalks us our entire lives, hiding in smells and sounds, in solitude and in crowds. It waits in items and in thoughts. Memories are the hunting grounds of grief, and when it pounces, its bite is venomous. It inflicts sadness or rage or sometimes despair. But grief is not an adventurous predator. Always it stalks old memories, not new. And that is how we move on. New memories where it is not welcome.”
Source: Death's Beating Heart
“You cannot deceive God; He already knows. He always knows. Concentrate on being honest with yourself.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“You cannot decide how many children your parents will give birth to, but you can identify the sibling(s) (if any) with whom you can have a healthy relationship.”
“You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.”
Source: The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
“You cannot defeat darkness by running from it.”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.”
“You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.”
“You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.”
Source: Bugspray
“You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.”
“You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.”
“You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.”
“You cannot delete this, whether, with due or undue weight. It is social media, not the Wikipedia.”
“You cannot demand for respect where you are being fed.”
Source: WURA
“You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.”
“You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.”
Source: House of Green Turf