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“You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.”
“You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the subject, study the history of the sciences. Broad knowledge of all Nature has been the possession of no naturalist except Humboldt, and general relations constituted his specialty.”
“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state.”
“You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.”
“You cannot domesticate JAH (God)!”
“You cannot doubt and believe at the same time. You need to choose one. As you make that choice, remember that doubt hinders Faith.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.”
“You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.”
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it.”
“You cannot dwell in your being while your self inhabits your heart.”
“You cannot earn freedom through conformity. You cannot buy your way in And we can only claim it when we recognize it is already ours.”
Source: You Have the Right to Remain Fat
“You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.”
“You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.”
“You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.”
“You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”
Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
“You cannot eat your cake and have it.”
Source: Ulysses
“You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“You cannot "educate" people; education does not improve moral character and congenital intelligence. You can show them things, and if they find meaning in them, they'll adapt to their own lifestyle and purpose. It's like eating: you take in food, break it down, and it becomes part of you where you can use it. The rest goes into the carrot patch, and might feed something else.”
Source: Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
“You cannot eliminate a thought by fighting it or trying to block it out. Resisting an unwanted thought only entangles you and drives that thought deeper into your mind, making it even more of a distraction.”
Source: The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life
“You cannot embrace happiness when your thoughts cling to nothingness trying to overcome an emotional dependency.
- Araliza Arias”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“You cannot embrace the action or play the role correctly if you're having someone else do the movements for you. I want to be doing it myself, unless it's going to be a train wreck.”
“You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.”
“You cannot end dehumanization while abiding by the narrative established by the dehumanizers, you cannot end a pandemic while playing by the rules of the virus - you cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“You cannot endure what you never enjoy!”
“You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”
“You cannot enjoy true love in relationship if you don't add honest flavours to it. You can genuinely maintain what you can sincerely entertain!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.”
“You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic
“You cannot envy someone until you walk in their shoes and embrace their flaws.”
“You Cannot Escape Beauty And You Cannot Stop Being Attracted To It, Because Beauty Allures. Beauty Seduces. Beauty Wants You To Come Closer.”
Source: Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places
“You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.”
“You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!”
“You cannot escape God's call on your life. He will pursue you to the ends of the earth!”
“You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.”
“You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“You cannot escape sex. It will track you to the ends of the earth.”
Source: Mother, sister, daughter, lover: stories
“You cannot escape that you are a woman,” she began.
“I wish I could,” Firekeeper muttered, but Elise continued as if she hadn’t heard.
“Since you cannot, you cannot escape the expectations that our society and our class places upon women.”
“Why?” Firekeeper said querulously.
“...Consider,” she offered, “what you told me about learning to see at night so that you could hunt with the wolves. Learning to wear a gown, to walk gracefully, to eat politely…”
“I do that!”
“You’re learning,” Elise admitted, “but don’t change the subject. All of these are ways of learning to see in the dark.”
“Maybe,” Firekeeper said, her tone unconvinced.
“Can you climb a tree?”
“Yes.”
“Swim?”
“Yes!” This second affirmative was almost indignant.
“And these skills let you go places that you could not go without them.”
Stubborn silence. Elise pressed her point.
“Why do you like knowing how to shoot a bow?”
“It lets me kill farther,” came the answer, almost in a growl.
“And using a sword does the same?”
“Yes.”
“Let me tell you, Firekeeper, knowing a woman’s arts can keep you alive, let you invade private sanctums, even help you to subdue your enemies. If you don’t know those arts, others who do will always have an advantage over you.”
“All this from wearing a gown that tangles your feet?”
Source: Through Wolf's Eyes
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”
“You cannot escape transformation, only delay your awakening.”
“You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.”
“You cannot escape what you pretend doesn't hold you. You cannot be free if you are afraid of confronting reality.”
Source: The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story
“You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“You cannot escape your destiny.”
Source: Poseidon's Academy and the Olympian Mysteries: A Tween Fantasy Series
“You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.”