Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.”
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“You cannot have a self, and not burn it. You cannot have a life, and not sacrifice it.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven”
“You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies?”
“You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.”
Source: Great Speeches by Mark Twain
“You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.
Perfect love cannot be without equality.
A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
We are all alike, on the inside.”
“You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.”
“You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference.”
“You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.”
Source: A Severed Head
“You cannot have chocolate without cacao. The cacao bean is chocolate. All chocolate contains at least some ground up cacao beans.”
“You cannot have Christ for your Savior unless you also have Him as your Lord.”
“You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 42: Sermons 2446-2497
“You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.”
“You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.”
“You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.”
“You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.”
“You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.”
“You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.”
“You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“You cannot have faith, and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science, and fail at service.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“You cannot have Faith if you do not believe in God. Faith works wonders when your belief is rooted in the Master of the Universe.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.”
“You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.”
“You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.”
“You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“You cannot have growth without change.”
Source: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work
“You cannot have heart, and host prejudice too.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.”
“You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.”
“You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“You cannot have lunch and dinner at any time of the day, but you can have breakfast at any time of the day!”
“You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.”
“You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.”
“You cannot have more than one leader worldwide. So, you would only have one Caliph for all of the Muslim world, so whoever that is, he would have authority over all of the Muslim land and wherever the Sharia is implemented.”
“You cannot have my pain.”
“Dalinar—”
Dalinar forced himself to his feet. “You. Cannot. Have. My. Pain.”
“Be sensible.”
“I killed those children,” Dalinar said.
“No, it—”
“I burned the people of Rathalas.”
“I was there, influencing you—”
“YOU CANNOT HAVE MY PAIN!” Dalinar bellowed, stepping toward Odium. The god frowned. His Fused companions shied back, and Amaram raised a hand before his eyes and squinted.
Were those gloryspren spinning around Dalinar?
“I did kill the people of Rathalas,” Dalinar shouted. “You might have been there, but I made the choice. I decided!” He stilled. “I killed her. It hurts so much, but I did it. I accept that. You cannot have her. You cannot take her from me again.”
“Dalinar,” Odium said. “What do you hope to gain, keeping this burden?”
Dalinar sneered at the god. “If I pretend … If I pretend I didn’t do those things, it means that I can’t have grown to become someone else.”
“A failure.”
Something stirred inside of Dalinar. A warmth that he had known once before. A warm, calming light.
Unite them.
“Journey before destination,” Dalinar said. “It cannot be a journey if it doesn’t have a beginning.”
A thunderclap sounded in his mind. Suddenly, awareness poured back into him. The Stormfather, distant, feeling frightened—but also surprised.
Dalinar?
“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.”
Source: Oathbringer
“You. Cannot. Have. My. SACRIFICE!”
Source: Rhythm of War
“You. Cannot. Have. My. SACRIFICE!” she shouted. “Mine. My sacrifice. Not yours.” She pointed at the crowd. “Not theirs.” She pointed at Adolin. “Not his. Mine. MY SACRIFICE.”
Source: Rhythm of War
“You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.”
“You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.”
“You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.”
“You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.”
“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”
Source: Major Barbara
“You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement; but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it.”
Source: Dramatic Opinions and Essays, volume 1
“You cannot have second doubts to be in first place”
“You cannot have security at the expense of the insecurity of others.”
“You cannot have sex education without saying that sex is natural and that most people find it pleasurable.”
“You cannot have strong leadership without passion.”
Source: Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation
“You cannot have that attitude of where I am going to tuck my tail between my legs and go home. You have to keep going back for more. That's why cycling is a very competitive sport. You have to have determination and drive to train hard and put forth a good effort.”
“You cannot have the drama without comedy.”