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“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.”
“You cannot truly solve what you’ve never felt, just as you cannot truly choose what you cannot accept.”
“You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives”
“You cannot trust a person who only has new friends.”
“You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.”
“You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.”
“You cannot trust the government.”
“You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.”
“you cannot try to silence a collective pain for so long and not expect a collective rage to eventually come.”
“You cannot turn a Donkey into a Thoroughbred.”
“You cannot turn your winning attitude on when you think you 'need it.' You must work on it every day, every practice, every match - win or lose. Focus on playing to win, not playing to lose, for there is a season of difference between the two.”
“You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.”
“You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.”
“You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.”
“You cannot underestimate the role that frankincense, myrrh, and spikenard played in the life of Jesus.”
“You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.”
Source: The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)
“You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.”
“You cannot understand chaos when you are inside chaos. You have to step out of the chaos and look at the chaos from a quiet corner! Yes, human beings can understand the universe because for now we are in a quiet corner out of the chaos, but just for now and this situation can change very quickly!”
“You cannot understand God if you don’t understand people”
“You cannot understand God without understanding people”
“You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.”
“You cannot understand how much patience I need in order not to lose my patience, so that I can withstand all this misfortune all by myself.
Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. June 1922”
Source: The Suffering God: Selected Letters to Galatea and to Papastephanou
“You cannot understand someone whose life experience is only ever portrayed to you through movies.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.”
“You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.”
“You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.”
“You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.”
“You cannot understand what you cannot understand. There is no light beyond darkness."
“NO SE PUEDE COMPRENDER LO QUE NO PUEDE COMPRENDER. NO HAY LUZ MÁS ALLÁ QUE LA OSCURIDAD.”
“You cannot undo the painful deeds where you were robbed of an open door, but you can still work towards gaining access to one.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.”
Source: Hurt
“You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.”
Source: The Words of César Chávez
“You cannot unlove someone, if you can then it was never ‘Love’.”
“You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target.”
“You cannot use another man's leg to run your race. Wives stop waiting for your husbands to do everything. For God's sake make an impact. Nobody is a threat to your development.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars”
“You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”
“You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment. The terrible phone call, the rainstorm, the sinister knock on the door—they will all come. Soon enough arrive the treacherous villain and the unfair trial and the smoke and the flames of the suspicious fires to burn everything away. In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around.”
Source: Shouldn't You Be in School?
“You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.”
“You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are.”
Source: Daily Readings from You Can, You Will: 90 Devotions to Becoming a Winner
“You cannot walk away. The truth is that there is no magic way that you can say to your partners, "You are going to continue paying us the money and we will not keep our part of the deal." This is not possible around the world. It is good to hear it.”
“you cannot
walk in and out of me
like a revolving door
i have too many miracles
happening inside me
to be your convenient option”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.”
“You cannot walk through an open door if you keep looking back at the closed door.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“You cannot walk through the door to God's blessing, still carrying every wrong done to you in the past.”
“You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.”
“You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.”
“You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it”
Source: An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind
“You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.”
“You cannot water your own plant if you are waiting on other people's approval to do so. Stop living your one and only life waiting for validation, start seeking your own inner voice to guide you.”
Source: Intoxicated stained tears