Y Quotes
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“You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.”
“You can’t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with”
“You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others”
“You can’t be serious,” Eve said. “Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I’ve seen the movies.” "Eve,” Michael said. “Horror movies are not documentaries.”
Source: Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”
“You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.”
“You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.”
“You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face.”
“You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack. “You can’t blame a girl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?”
“You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter”
“You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.”
“You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?”
“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.”
“You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.”
“You can’t change someone’s behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.”
“You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened”
“You can’t change the music of your soul.”
“You can’t change the past, it just is”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.”
“You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don’t get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.”
“You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.”
“You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.”
“You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.”
“You can’t coach guts and commitment.”
“You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.”
“You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.”
“You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.”
“You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.”
“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.”
Source: The Dispossessed
“You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.”
“You can’t die, Vik. You’re a mechbot. (Syn) They can pull me apart and reprogram me. Trust me, that’s death. Now shush before they find us. Remember – hide, people, hide. (Vik)”
“You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.”
Source: Paper Towns
“You can’t do anything about yesterday, and the only way to improve tomorrow is by what you do right now.”
“You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.”
“You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.”
“You can’t embrace your whole life if you’re shut down.”
“You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.”
“You can’t ever know the real anybody unless you’re friends with them. And sometimes not even then.”
Source: Something Like Fate
“You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.”
Source: The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak
“You can’t fool people into loving you.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it”
“You can’t get away from yourself, but you can get yourself out of the way.”
“You can’t get mad at a bear for being racist. You can’t get mad at a bear for being offensive. It’s not real.”
“You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.”
Source: God in the Dock
“You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.”
“You can’t go back. Can’t fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference.” She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. “From where I’m standing, you’re the best step I ever took.”
Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection
“You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.”