Y Quotes
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“You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.”
“You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.”
“You cannot go back and live your childhood all over again. But don’t forget that there is a child within you, an exceptional child. Cherish and pamper this child. Never, never hurt your inner child.”
“You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending”
Source: The Almond Tree
“You cannot go back to your past and erase or do alterations, but today you can have a new start”
“You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.”
Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“You cannot go higher than you think you can.”
“You cannot go into labor," Caleb ordered, anxiety clenching his innards.
"The baby is coming!" She enunciated every word.
"The doctor is a long day's ride away in Sweetwater Springs, and there's no woman for miles. You'll just have to wait."
As the contraction eased, the tightness in her body relaxed, and she gave him a wan smile. "Does everyone always do what you say?"
'Is that levity in her voice? At a time like this?' "They comply if I know what best, and I usually do.”
Source: Mystic Montana Sky
“You cannot go into the same water twice.”
Source: Cratylus
“You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.”
“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's new creation, and all that is in between; you cannot get outside of that.”
“You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road”
Source: Springfield Road
“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
“You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.”
“You cannot go to the cemetery and ask to be enlightened on matters of this kind, though it would ease my mind considerably if you could.”
Source: ANCESTORS: A Family History
“You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.”
“You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.”
“You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.”
Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
“You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.”
“You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.”
“You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.”
Source: Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss
“You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.”
“You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.”
“You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.”
“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”
Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin
“You cannot handle my swag”
“You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.”
“You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a known flaw, simply because some intelligence agencies might get some data. That is not acceptable.”
“You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.”
“You cannot have a brain, and complacent too. You cannot have backbone, and conformist too.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.”
“You cannot have a cordial relationship with God when you reject people”
“You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.”
“You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.”
“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you.
Habakuk 2:4”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”
“You cannot have a great love relationship with an extraordinary person if you behave in a stereotypical way.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.”
“You cannot have a healthy body without drinking a great deal of water. But remember, you can't just drink a glass of water and tell a glass of water to please go straight to your skin and moisturize your complexion. Water has to be there all the time, doing what it does naturally in a healthy body.”
“You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.”
“You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“You cannot have a peaceful life without simplifying your life!”
“You cannot have a perfect mind. You can have a perfect heart.”
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
“You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.”
“You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.”
Source: Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)