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“You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.”
“You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.”
Source: Southern Lights
“You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.”
“You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.”
Source: The Patron Saint of Liars
“You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.”
Source: The Proud Highway: Rejacketed
“You can’t plead tolerance for gays by saying that they’re just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.”
“You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.”
“You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death.”
“You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.”
“You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara)”
Source: Born of Night
“You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.”
“You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.”
“You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.”
“You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.”
“You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.”
“You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.”
Source: Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose
“You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.”
“You can’t really worry too much…about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.”
“You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.”
Source: Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time
“You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.”
“You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?”
“You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.”
“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”
Source: T is for Trespass: A Kinsey Millhone Novel
“You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.”
“You can’t say yes to every role and you have to make people miss you. I don’t want people to get sick of me.”
“You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it.”
Source: Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)
“You can’t second-guess baseballyou can’t second-guess yourself.”
“You can’t shine if you don’t burn.”
“You can’t solve a spiritual problem with a military or political solution.”
Source: The Harbinger
“You can’t stand in gratitude if you’re stuck in victimhood.”
“You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.”
“You can’t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.”
“You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.”
“You can’t stop being who you are because you’re afraid.”
“You can’t stop my voice cause
You don't own my life but
Do what you want (with my body)”
“You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.”
“You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve got to think positive.”
“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”
“You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.”
“You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much you’ve already done.”
Source: Dairy Queen
“You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.”
“You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.”
“You can’t trap justice. It’s an idea, a belief.”
“You can’t trust those damn Catholics.”
“You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“you can’t use logic on human behavior.”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.”
“You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”