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“You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!”
“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.”
“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.”
“You cannot put any fear in my bones, because fear has made itself at home within me. That is why I feel invisible; because fear robbed me of peace, joy, happiness, and it robbed me of my innocence. I am cleaning fear out of my system. It isn’t easy, but it is possible. Fear is not welcome in my head, heart, or my soul. Fear, you have to pack your shit and move the fuck out!”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.”
“You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.”
Source: Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]
“You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.”
“You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times.”
“You cannot put yours and yourself in danger just to overcome your fear.”
Source: The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.”
“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.”
“You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.”
“You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.”
“You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.”
“You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.”
“You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.”
“You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption”
“You cannot reach God until you begin to pay attention to humans”
“You cannot reach success only by working hard, you also need to be working smart.”
“You cannot reach where you are going if you continue to be the same person you have always been.”
“You cannot read all the books,
but you can read 'I LOST MY SOUL”
Source: I Lost My Soul
“You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.”
“You cannot read mathematics the way you read a novel. If you zip through a
page in less than an hour, you are probably going too fast.”
“You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.”
Source: The Kingdom Agenda
“You cannot really be greatly turned on by something, and not be turned off by its opposite or absence.”
“You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.”
“You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.”
Source: Dr. Ivan Van Sertima- 8 DVD video lectures: 8 DVDs, Best viewed on wifi on phones or tablets. iPads or Android (use google Play Book app to view. Gmail account required)
“You cannot really convince a man who has always been blind that he does not see.”
“You cannot really debate with somebody who truly despises you.”
“You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.”
“You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.”
“You cannot really hurt a masochist.”
“You cannot really not care about what other people think of you and still wear a perfume or cologne.”
“You cannot really not care about what others think about you, yet care about whether or not they know that you do not care about what they think about you.”
“You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.”
“You cannot really stop aging. You can only delay or hide some of its effects.”
“You cannot really understand reality and when you do you are misunderstood by the majority.”
“You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.”
“You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”
“You cannot reason with religious nuts on the evolution of religion.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“You cannot reason with unreasonable people”
Source: Pearls Before Swine
“You cannot receive God when you block people from your life”
“You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.”
“You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“You cannot reconcile with another until you've reconciled with the wound within yourself.”
“You cannot recreate hardships and can only live through them and draw strength from the experience's life intended for your training”
“You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.”
“You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.”