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“You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
“You cannot murder him,' Camilla said, sounding- of all things- partly aghast and mildly frustrated.
He didn't slow his pace. 'I assure you, I can.'
'Allow me to rephrase. You will not murder him?”
Source: Throne of the Fallen
“You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.”
Source: Collected Works
“You cannot negotiate with pain. You simply have to accept it. When you accept Life for what it is, and accept pain for the way it is, you discover inner peace, contentment and Happiness.”
“You cannot negotiate with reality. Every lie you cling to is a step behind the world, and every step behind is a wound in your life and your civilization.”
Source: KNOW YOUR ENEMIES: Familiarity is camouflage
“You cannot not communicate.”
“You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.”
“You cannot not see each and every human being as family, and not believe that Adam and Eve never existed.”
“You cannot nourish someone who has already been fed with something they believe surpasses your offer.”
“You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.”
“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”
“You cannot observe what you did not create.”
“You cannot obtain wisdom by walking only in your own garden because wisdom requires knowing beyond your frontiers!”
“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.”
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
“You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.”
“You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable.”
Source: Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle
“You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”
Source: The Words of César Chávez
“You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“You cannot out-discipline a desire you still worship. Only God can change your appetite. When sin becomes too sweet to quit, you need God to make it bitter.”
“You cannot out-train bad nutrition. It's impossible.”
“You cannot outrun fate.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“You cannot outsource your becoming.”
Source: Cosmic Goodness: Surrendering the Shadows to Live in the Light
“You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.”
Source: Dark Flame
“You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all." - Matthew Farrell”
Source: Paradise/Tender Triumph
“You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!”
“You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central. This is never really admitted. You have to cover the pages. You have to have those people do things. And the things they do have to be relevant to the entire concern. The specific things they do don't much matter, you just have to have them do something that counts.”
“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.”
“You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.”
Source: Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus
“You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.”
“You cannot pass.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.”
Source: Wish I Was Here
“You cannot penetrate events with reportage.”
Source: The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema
“You cannot perceive what you are not in the vibration of.”
“You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.”
Source: The Lovers
“You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”
“You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts, shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you touched it and virtue went out of you.”
“You cannot petition the lord with prayer!”
“You cannot photograph mental illness.”
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire”
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
“You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.”
“You cannot plant from thorns; getting hurt doesn't mean you should start motivating others from a place of pain”
“You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.”
Source: No Longer at Ease
“You cannot play a symphony with one instrument.”
“You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.”
“You cannot play for safety and make art.”