All Quotes

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
‐‐ Ian Hislop

You can't undo a deportation.
‐‐ Jonathan Shapiro

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
‐‐ Bruce Willis

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
‐‐ Martha Reeves

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
‐‐ Russel Honore

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.
‐‐ Stephanie Zimbalist

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
‐‐ Jack London

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.
‐‐ Rebecca Sugar

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.
‐‐ Roger Stone

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
‐‐ Peter Abrahams

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.
‐‐ Les Claypool

You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
‐‐ Bernadine Dohrn

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.
‐‐ Jim Palmer

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

You can't win some people over.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
‐‐ Jason Silva

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
‐‐ Joe Torre

You can't win them all.
‐‐ Connie Mack

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
‐‐ Hank Stram

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.
‐‐ Vince Cable

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.
‐‐ Robert J. Bentley

You can't work all your life.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard

You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
‐‐ Jack Gilbert

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
‐‐ John Malkovich

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.
‐‐ Fred L. Turner

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.
‐‐ China Machado

You can't worry about looks. It's about the inside at the end of the day because we're all going to get old and gray one day.
‐‐ Romeo Miller

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.
‐‐ Joaquin Andujar

You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

You can't wrestle forever. It's a very physically taxing job. There's no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally.
‐‐ Chris Jericho

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
‐‐ Victor LaValle

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.
‐‐ John Banville

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.
‐‐ David Mamet

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
‐‐ Dierks Bentley

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.
‐‐ Jane Hirshfield

You can't write if you don't read.
‐‐ Steve Earle

You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.
‐‐ James McBride

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

You can't write something to please someone.
‐‐ Sean Durkin

You can tailor garments all you want, but if it doesn't fit in the arms or legs, it never will.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.
‐‐ Alan Shearer