Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You can’t go the distance with too much resistance”
“You can’t go through life not listening to music.”
Source: The Rosie Project: A Novel
“You can’t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.”
“You can’t hate people unless you love them.”
“You can’t hate someone whose story you know.”
Source: Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)
“You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.”
“You can’t have a bully without a victim.”
Source: Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
“You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.”
“You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.”
“You can’t have him, okay,” she said from behind the wire barrier. “Mm-hmm,” I whispered. “This is certainly a beautiful neighborhood.” “Yeah, I guess.” “I will scratch those eyes out of your ugly head.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.”
“You can’t have peace without a war.”
“You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.”
“You can’t have two worlds in your hands
and choose emptiness.”
Source: Incarnadine: Poems
“You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.”
“You can’t have what you want to have, without doing what you need to do.”
“You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“You can’t hide secrets from the future with math.”
“You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.”
Source: Unlimited Power a Black Choice
“You can’t hurry love, and you can’t rush puff pastry, either. You can knead too much, and you can be too needy. Always, warmth is what brings pastry to rise. Chemistry creates something amazing; coupled with care and heat, it works some kind of magic to create this satisfying, welcoming, and nourishing thing that is the base of life.”
“You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“You can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.”
“You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.”
Source: Digital Fortress: A Thriller
“You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.”
“You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.”
“You can’t just say that you’re committed to creating the best year of your life and expect it to stick. You have to make a conscious effort to allow this commitment to become part of your internal belief system.”
Source: The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It
“You can’t just want to die.
You have to live it.”
“You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”
Source: Locked rooms and open doors
“You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.”
Source: Fool for Love and Other Plays
“You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.”
Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices
“You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own”
Source: So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel
“You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.”
“You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.”
Source: Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.”
“You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.”
“You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.”
“You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.”
“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”
“You can’t live for God until you learn how to live because of God.”
“You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!”
“You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.”
Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
“You can’t make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.”
“You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.”
“You can’t miss your schedule. Every morning, you’re supposed to stick your right arm in this contraption in the wall. It tattoos the smooth inside of your forearm with your schedule for the day in a sickly purple ink. 7:00—Breakfast. 7:30—Kitchen Duties. 8:30—Education Center, Room 17. And so on. The ink is indelible until 22:00—Bathing”