You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck
You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
‐‐ Jeff Smisek
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
‐‐ Azim Premji
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden
You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.
‐‐ Eric Liu
You cannot mix sports with politics.
‐‐ Jackie Chan
You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.
‐‐ Joseph Prince
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
‐‐ Brian Mulroney
You cannot not know history.
‐‐ Philip Johnson
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
‐‐ Nicolas Malebranche
You cannot open a book without learning something.
‐‐ Confucius
You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.
‐‐ Danny Meyer
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
‐‐ Jules Verne
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
‐‐ Tertullian
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar
You cannot play naive if you're not.
‐‐ Ida Lupino
You cannot play with fire.
‐‐ Al-Waleed bin Talal
You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
‐‐ Pierre Bonnard
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
‐‐ Emma Donoghue
You cannot prepare enough for anything.
‐‐ James Galway
You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte
You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
‐‐ Felix Dennis
You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.'
‐‐ Jamie Dimon
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
‐‐ Andrew Carnegie
You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
‐‐ Learned Hand
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.
‐‐ Eliezer Yudkowsky
You cannot reason with people who don't recognize the humanity in all of us.
‐‐ Roxane Gay
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
‐‐ Bashar al-Assad
You cannot rely on other people's support.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai
You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.
‐‐ Henry Winkler
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
‐‐ Harold S. Geneen
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson
You cannot run faster than a bullet.
‐‐ Idi Amin
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.
‐‐ Sophia Loren
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
‐‐ Garry Kasparov
You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.
‐‐ Peter Lindbergh
You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.
‐‐ Arsene Wenger
You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll
You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
‐‐ F. W. de Klerk
You cannot schedule death.
‐‐ Paloma Faith
You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.
‐‐ Alice Walker
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
‐‐ John Wesley Powell
You cannot separate sexuality from cheerleading. It is inherently what it is - growing up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and all of that stuff.
‐‐ Peyton Reed
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.
‐‐ Norman Foster