Top 100 All You Can Quotes
#2. And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.
E.L. Doctorow
#4. A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Frank A. Clark
#5. I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.
Artie Shaw
#6. I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.
Colonel Sanders
#7. I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest.
Sienna Miller
#8. When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.
Jay L. Garfield
#9. All you can take with you is that which you've given away.
George Bailey
#10. Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them beat you to a bloody pulp. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency
P.S. Martinez
#11. I should've been better. But sometimes all you can really stand to do is think about yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to cope. The only way to make sense of something as colossal and and intimidating as the world is to make it about you.
Emma Mills
#12. Too many people try to assuage pain that can never be eradicated. All you can do is salute the grief, acknowledge that you carry it, too, and that even though we all travel that path alone, we are not alone in traveling it.
M.J. Rose
#13. Cause when push comes to shove,
You taste what you're made of.
You might bend till you break,
Cause it's all you can take.
On your knees, you look up,
Decide you've had enough.
You get mad, you get strong,
Wipe your hands, shake it off.
And you stand ...
Rascal Flatts
#14. They may signify wealth, but they can actually mean so much more-like committment, family, and love. And there's nothing like a perfect diamond to remind you that you'll never be perfect - the truth is, all you can do is try.
Nicole Richie
#15. The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force. Us or the Starflyer.
Peter F. Hamilton
#16. If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
Rumi
#17. She looked at him gravely. You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.
Lynn Kurland
#18. We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.
Mika.
#19. The key to a good marriage is to do all you can to uplift your wife and treasure her - even in her worst moments.
Jody Hedlund
#20. When it comes to life, all you can change is the equivalent of furniture, paint and windows. Doors, maybe. Change the things that are in too bad a state and hope the core holds.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#21. Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
Randy Alcorn
#22. Your circumstance is ultimately tied to your choices; you create your own destiny. Individual development is up to you - it is your responsibility. You have all eternity to grow and progress to become all you can be. Whether the journey is swift of protracted is ultimately in your hands.
Mark Ireland
#23. All you can do is learn the skills of movies. Neither colleges nor anyone else can teach you creativity. They can teach you abilities to work with - you know how to use the gifts you've been born with.
Frank Capra
#24. You can't control other people's feelings. All you can do is put yourself out there and hope she's going to feel the same way.
Helena Hunting
#25. Gemma had blond hair and blue eyes. I did not.
Gemma was always an A student. I was more of a B-all-you-can-be kind of gal.
When Gemma was into science, I was into skipping.
When Gemma was into foreign languages, I was into the hot Italian guy down the street.
Darynda Jones
#26. He always told me to look strong even if I didn't feel it, because sometimes that's all you can do.
Jessi Kirby
#27. For you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're only left with your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not.
Charles Frazier
#28. There comes a time in life when everything you have know, tolerated and loved is suddenly shattered, all you can do is breathe Maureen Momm
Catie Hartsfield
#29. It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
Erma Bombeck
#30. It has to be now," he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. "After all, you can't allow me to go around like this all day."
"From what I've learned so far, this is your natural condition," came her pert reply.
Lisa Kleypas
#31. Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.
Matthew Kelly
#32. If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.
Dick Gregory
#33. Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.
Patrick Rothfuss
#34. Do all you can to help humanity ... to better and help heal the souls of all. Just make sure you take time and help heal yourself somewhere in the process.
Timothy Pina
#35. And it's stupid to have rules about how long you're allowed to cry and when you're supposed to flip a switch and stop crying. You can't even think. All you can do is feel. So how the heck are you supposed to follow rules?
Lynn Plourde
#36. If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.
Gary Zukav
#37. If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.
David Lynch
#38. All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#40. Are you doing only what you must or doing all you can?
Ron Kaufman
#41. You can't worry about the yesterdays or even the todays. All you can think of are the tomorrows. They are what keep you going when your life seems to be falling apart. Trust me on this.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#42. Well," he said, opening the door to his car, "all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it." [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. "And then you die.
Neil Strauss
#43. If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
John Kruk
#44. After all, you can't hang out at the park with your kid and shop for coordinating head scarves and flip-flops (or whatever else Bethany does to fill the endless expanse of nonworking days) without a college education.
Oh, that's right. You totally can.
Megan McCafferty
#45. Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond ... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.
John Browne, Baron Browne Of Madingley
#46. There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.
Nik Kershaw
#47. Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.
Peter Straub
#48. Run away. Whatever you are, run away. Run back to your gibbet, run back to your grave, little wish hound. All you can do is depress us, fill the world with shadows and illusions. The age when you ran with the wild hunt, or hunted terrified humans, it's over.
Neil Gaiman
#49. I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.
Alex Bogusky
#50. I think what I've realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards.
Sophie Kinsella
#52. So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don't have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray.
Neal Shusterman
#53. However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
Aidan Chambers
#54. Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.
Billy Corgan
#55. Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you.
Joe Abercrombie
#57. I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.
Linda Ronstadt
#58. I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.
Paula Fox
#59. You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
Imelda Staunton
#60. You'll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
David Deida
#61. This world is going in all sorts of directions, but I think all you can do is get people to think about things in a different way, because sometimes people aren't even thinking.
Jillian Hervey
#62. If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.
Dean Koontz
#63. All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.
St. Vincent
#64. You know, I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them, hope they panic, and give in.
Allison Morgan
#65. All you can do is be your best self. I'm representing more than just me. I think everyone should be like that.
Misty Copeland
#66. You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.
Patricia Cornwell
#67. I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.
Ladyhawke
#68. You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.
Bryan Singer
#69. We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
Ben Elton
#70. Big results require big ambitions. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Bob Proctor
#71. And now I finally have a chance to treat you the way you deserve - to cherish you the way a woman should be when a man loves her. And all you can do is stare at the prince.
Sara B. Larson
#72. If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.
Daymond John
#73. You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.
Bryant McGill
#75. Sometimes there's no logical solutions with life's problems. All you can do is have faith that it will get better and truly believe.
Timothy Pina
#76. In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.
Jim Abbott
#77. Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.
Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.
But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.
Vera Nazarian
#78. When you have nothing left to lose. When there's nothing left to gain. You find yourself at the edge of the world, wishing nothing would have changed," I read and instantly got a twisted feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"All you can do is jump.
Monica Alexander
#79. My twin's not broken. He's ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken, maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury him.
J.R. Ward
#80. Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.
Marilyn French
#81. You can't accommodate a hundred different opinions,
and you can't ignore them. All you can do is provide people with the
illusion that they participated in the decision. For some reason, that's
enough to make people happy. This is the basis for all democracies.
Scott Adams
#82. Here comes the pope saying, "Well, that may be true about Cruz, but you build walls, and we Christians don't do that. So you're not a Christian, either." Sometimes all you can do is chuckle. I mean, you need a break from it some. You just can't be intense and wadded up all the time here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh
#83. Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.
Hillary Clinton
#84. Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.
Jodi Picoult
#85. People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.
David Byrne
#86. Never be ashamed to speak your mind. Sometimes the honesty of your own words is all you can count on.
Gena D. Lutz
#87. All you can do is play how you know how to play.
Clint Dempsey
#88. You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
Jack Gantos
#89. In the name of Our Lord, Monsieur, do all you can to regain your health and take good care of it so that you can serve God and the poor for a longer time. This moderate care does not preclude the obligation we have of generously risking our lives when the salvation of our neighbor is concerned.
Vincent De Paul
#90. Once you get into it, it's all you can think about. Look, I know you don't trust my judgment because I eat cat shit. Someday I'll explain that to you. But right now do what I say. Just pick up the ball and throw it.
Merrill Markoe
#91. Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.
Patrick Rothfuss
#92. When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.
Khloe Kardashian
#93. And in the fountain squatted a giant crab.
I'm not talking 'giant' like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I'm talking 'giant' like bigger than the fountain.
Rick Riordan
#94. If all you can promise me is today, I'll take it and hope for tomorrow.
Ellen Hopkins
#95. Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.
George Clarke
#96. You can never really know the truth. Not about life, not about God, not about what's in another person's heart, or even your own. All you can ever really know is what it feels like. What it feels like to laugh and cry and hate and hurt and hope and fear and love; what it feels like to live.
James Ryan Daley
#97. She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Haruki Murakami
#98. You can't stop the future.
All you can do is pick a side
Markus Sakey
#99. All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.
Lawrence Taylor
#100. Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics of investments are not solely based on supply and demand, and that is all that goes into Bitcoin prices.
Kurt Eichenwald
