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“You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.”
“You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.”
“You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.”
“You cannot play with fire.”
“You cannot play with Riquelme without playing for Riquelme.”
“You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds”
“You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.”
“You cannot please everyone, you cannot even please yourself, for if you could, you would not desire external things to make you happy”
“You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.”
“You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.”
“You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.”
Source: Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
“You cannot police me, so get off my areola”
“You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.”
“You cannot possibly expect even the most illiterate person on Earth to believe that you really want a democracy in Iraq while you are paying Mubarak $3 billion a year to pretend he doesn't hate Israel. And you're providing the military and diplomatic umbrella that protects the fascist government, if you will, of the al Sauds.”
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.”
“You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.”
“You cannot pour tea with a sword...”
“You cannot powder away what botox can fix. My name is Tamar, and I am for plastic surgery.”
“You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.”
“You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.”
“You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,
you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“You cannot pray them out of hell.”
“You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.”
“You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.”
“You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.”
“You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.”
“You cannot predict the future.”
“You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.”
“You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.”
“You cannot prepare enough for anything.”
“You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.”
“You cannot pretend to be a humanitarian while praising capitalist regimes.”
“You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.”
Source: Mister Pip
“You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.”
Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices
“You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.”
“You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.”
“You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.”
“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.”
“You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.”
“You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.”
“You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“You cannot protest against prejudice while supporting the evils behind it by succumbing to the mindset they have placed upon you.”
Source: The Entertainment Industry: Part of a Larger Plan
“You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.”
Source: Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge
“You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.”
“You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.”
“You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”
“You cannot punish an ocean by bailing so much water out of it.”
“You cannot punish her, she will take the punishment and laugh in your face, then tear the place down afterwards.”
Source: Shattered Steel
“You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.”
Source: The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings