You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
‐‐ Sam Rayburn
You cannot be a part-time candidate when you're running against Orrin Hatch.
‐‐ Scott Howell
You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.
‐‐ Ron Reagan
You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.
‐‐ James Earl Jones
You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
‐‐ Solomon Schechter
You cannot be creative with people around you.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld
You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.
‐‐ Dick Cheney
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov
You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
‐‐ Pope Francis
You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
‐‐ Karen Finerman
You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
‐‐ Victoria Azarenka
You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
‐‐ Yahya Jammeh
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh... it's as simple as that.
‐‐ Jay Leno
You cannot be politically correct in a war.
‐‐ Rupert Everett
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush
You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole
You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
‐‐ Felix Dennis
You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy
You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.
‐‐ Blythe Danner
You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.
‐‐ Andy Dick
You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels like... It feels great! It is really a very exciting time and I am enjoying the ride.
‐‐ Lionel Richie
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
‐‐ Swami Vivekananda
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
‐‐ Pearl Bailey
You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.
‐‐ Hector Tobar
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
‐‐ Daniel Hannan
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
‐‐ Thomas Sankara
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
‐‐ Arthur Miller
You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.
‐‐ Melania Trump
You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
‐‐ Marat Safin
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
‐‐ Jim Rohn
You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar
You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
‐‐ Martin Amis
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
‐‐ Ben Okri
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
‐‐ Andy Stanley
You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.
‐‐ Steffi Graf
You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi
You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders.
‐‐ Mary Beth Whitehead
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
‐‐ Faith Baldwin
You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.
‐‐ Mark Hyman
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
‐‐ Brian Tracy
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
‐‐ Albert Camus
You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.
‐‐ Michio Kaku
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
‐‐ Natalia Makarova