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“You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.”
“You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.”
Source: Writer's Retreat: New York City Edition: Cafes, Restaurants & Coffee Shops for Writers, Bloggers & Students
“You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.”
“You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.”
“You cannot kickstart a dead horse”
“You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.”
“You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.”
“You cannot kill evil. Evil is always with us and if forces of good are not vigilant, are not courageous and true, then evil will win out, and should win out, if we are not brave enough to fight it.”
Source: The Ugly Princess: The Legend of the Winnowwood
“You cannot kill giants while running from rabbits.
You cannot scale mountains while hiding in caves.
You cannot take territory if you give away your inheritance.
And, you cannot cast out of the atmosphere what resides in your heart.”
“You cannot kill horror, little one.”
Source: Justice League Dark #3
“You cannot kill me here. Bring your soldiers, your death, your disease, your collapsed economy because it doesn’t matter, I have nothing left to lose and you cannot kill me here. Bring the tears of orphans and the wails of a mother’s loss, bring your God damn air force and Jesus on a cross, bring your hate and bitterness and long working hours, bring your empty wallets and love long since gone but you cannot kill me here. Bring your sneers, your snide remarks and friendships never felt, your letters never sent, your kisses never kissed, cigarettes smoked to the bone and cancer killing fears but you cannot kill me here. For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction. Because you cannot kill me here.”
“You cannot kill what you did NOT create”
“You cannot kill what you don't know.”
“You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.”
“You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.”
“You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.”
Source: Sophocles
“You cannot know anything spiritually by saying it is a not-that: you can only know it by meeting it in its precise and irreplaceable thisness and honoring it there.”
Source: Just This
“You cannot know everything that goes around you. But you can question it, try to find the answer to it. When you try and still cannot deduce more than what makes you satisfied, leave it. Stop asking that same question and think of it as a question with multiple answers and whatever fits right for you, make it your answer. So that you can move forward. Being stuck creates more negativity, it will make you tired and you will stop looking at the good that you have around you except that one answer you are looking for.”
“You cannot know for certain that what you've experienced will result in the same end. Braving the unknown is what makes us all human and vulnerable. Every person has a past he or she must come to live with, as well as a future that is not yet written--do not give up the fight already.”
Source: Midnight on the River Grey
“You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.”
“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
Source: Circe
“You cannot know how frightened the Gods are of pain. For there is nothing so foreign to them. Yet nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
“You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge.”
“You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.”
“You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering."
"No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.”
Source: Washington Black
“You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“You cannot know what you do not feel.”
“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
“You cannot know wine by the barrell.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.”
Source: Abigail Adams: Letters
“You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.”
“You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.”
“You cannot lead an alliance if you say you're going alone.”
“You cannot lead people you do not influence.”
“You cannot lead someone if you cannot organize your own life.”
“You cannot lead toxic people but you can inoculate those who can be infected by a toxic person and detoxify the team by ridding it of the toxin.”
“You cannot lead without passion. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Real EntreLeaders care deeply, and that is basically what passion is. Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply.”
Source: EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
“You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.”
“You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.”
“You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.”
“You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!”
“You cannot learn the secrets of the sea by sitting on the land, and you cannot learn the secrets of the land by living in the sea! If you want real knowledge about something, you have to go to it and integrate with it!”
“You cannot learn to curse like an American.”
“You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.”
“You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.”
Source: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently