Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.”
“You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.”
“You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.”
“You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.”
“You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.”
“You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.”
Source: Leacock on Life
“You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.”
Source: Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
“You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.”
“You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.”
“You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.”
“You cannot design better products by staying in the office.”
“You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.”
“You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“You cannot develop consciousness without correcting your biases.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.”
“You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including words such as "faith" or "belief". If God is not in the very fabric of existence for you, if you do not find Him (or miss Him!) in the details of your daily life, then religion is just one more way to commit spiritual suicide.”
Source: Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
“You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”
“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper”
Source: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step
“You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.”
“You cannot discover God without discovering people”
“You cannot discover new roads with old maps.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“You cannot discover your soul under the shackles of slavery.”
Source: I Was There
“You cannot discuss any matter with those people who are just a prisoner of their false ego, little knowledge, weak and wrong examples, blaming, insulting, and abusing behaviour instead of observing, understanding, and excepting the reality, sensibility, and facts of the time and the history of the civilisation.”
“You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!”
“You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.”
“You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.”
“You cannot disregard people and hope to see God”
“You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.”
“You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.”
“You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.”
“You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.”
Source: The Brading Collection
“You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon.”
“You cannot do anything, except your will agrees with the will of the Lord”
“You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!”
“You cannot do anything unless you allow your passion to motivate you. People may tell you, "you can do it", "you can make it" "it's possible" but when you tell yourself always " I can't make it", it's your choice that rules everything!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.”
“You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.”
“You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out
these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of
his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be
shot on the spot.”
“You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.”
“You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality”
“You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.”
“You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.”
“You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.”
“You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?”
“You cannot do only one thing.”
“You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.”
“You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.”