Top 100 Can Be Quotes
#1. Your brain can be your most powerful asset. But if not used properly, it can be your most powerful liability.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#2. I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal ... I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.
Mindy Kaling
#3. Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
Publilius Syrus
#4. There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright
#5. Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?
Florynce Kennedy
#7. I love corduroy jeans as well as vertical-striped jeans. Both are a fun switch from plain old denim. They can be slimming so long as the stripes aren't too chunky.
Twiggy
#8. Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
Thomas Paine
#9. Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
Scott Aukerman
#10. I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
Patrick Demarchelier
#11. Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.
Timothy Zahn
#12. Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good.
C.S. Lewis
#13. It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.
Jonathan Ive
#14. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.
Sarojini Naidu
#16. Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.
Juan Villoro
#17. That's true. It doesn't make any sense. Welcome to the adult world, coming soon. I work so I can work more. I try not to want anything so maybe I'll get something. I starve so I can be less and more. I try to be free so I can be alone. And there's no point to any of it. They left out that part.
David Vann
#18. Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not
Marcus Garvey
#19. Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.
Ravi Zacharias
#20. Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.
Lena Headey
#21. I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#22. The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
George Bernard Shaw
#23. A shock will do it, he said, or strong emotion, strong emotion of any sort. It can be horror. Or disgust. But, then again, it doesn't have to be. Sometimes, he said, people die laughing.
Hilary Mantel
#24. With regards to getting laid and getting AIDS: Being interesting can be an interesting guy's downfall.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#25. The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.
Kanye West
#26. did she love you?
only as an extension of herself.
what else can love be?
the common sense to care very much for something very good. it needn't be related by bloodline. it can be a red beachball or a piece of buttered toast.
Charles Bukowski
#27. I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.
Emeril Lagasse
#28. I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear. I guess that's why I'm so quiet and such a good whisperer,
Paul Beatty
#29. The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
Gertrude Atherton
#30. A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.
Donald A. Norman
#31. The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity.
J.I. Packer
#32. You can be such an asshole, Dresden, I swear.
Jim Butcher
#33. There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lightsgto out.
Robert H. Jackson
#34. No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Nora Ephron
#35. You can be beautiful, kind and, also, strong. Strength can be shown in very many ways besides a sword or bow.
Ufuoma Apoki
#37. I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.
Debra Winger
#38. It is best to live however one can be.
Sophocles
#39. Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
Umberto Eco
#40. There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.
Frederick Lenz
#41. The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.
Dean Koontz
#42. Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#43. I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.
William Kamkwamba
#44. Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.
Emily Rodda
#45. There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
Vicky McClure
#46. That was the night I learned that the things we don't ask about - ignore, walk by - those can be the most deadly of all.
Rebecca Serle
#47. The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.
Larry Dossey
#48. I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
Bell Hooks
#49. Build it all up, and it all falls down. It all burns down. Everything you need can be taken. Remember that, nieces. Everything you hold dear, it can be taken.
Joseph Boyden
#50. None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.
Aristotle.
#51. Because most religions offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and revised, each new generation of believers is condemned to inherit the superstitions and tribal hatreds of its predecessors.
Sam Harris
#52. All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#53. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!
John Wesley
#54. This is life's sorrow:
That one can be happy only where two are;
And that our hearts are drawn to stars
Which want us not.
Edgar Lee Masters
#55. I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.
Ian McKellen
#56. If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing. In all conditions, we can choose the right with the guidance of the Spirit. We have the gospel of Jesus Christ to shape and guide our lives if we choose it.
Henry B. Eyring
#57. To go urgently around, with minimum hindrances or distractions, warning people that the world is heading rapidly in the wrong direction, and doing things which show clearly that evil has been defeated through Jesus and can be defeated again today.
N. T. Wright
#58. Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#59. Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.
Laozi
#60. It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.
Gary Johnson
#61. Libraries are more than just a storage place for books, they are treasure troves filled with creativity and knowledge. And that knowledge can be empowering.
R.L. Hemlock
#62. It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that they end up not being able to do anything. The spirit of God urges one gently to do the good that can be done reasonably, so that it may be done perseveringly and for a long time.
Vincent De Paul
#63. The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.
David Brooks
#64. A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace
#65. A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo ...
Russell Brand
#66. What keeps things as they are is our inability to comprehend how things can be.
Steven Redhead
#67. When a woman is pregnant, her freedom to choose her future for herself - and to act on that choice, whatever it may be - is the most powerful express of human agency there can be.
Ann Furedi
#68. There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.
Eckhart Tolle
#69. God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.
Robert Wright
#70. Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.
David Byrne
#71. Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.
Martin Pistorius
#72. Notice I did not say what people can do
what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.
Max DePree
#73. Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
David Douglas
#74. No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.
Sorin Cerin
#75. One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty ... absolute certainty.
Paul Outerbridge
#77. The funny thing about the word "delusion" is that it means just that - delusion. When you have it, you don't know it, and that can be a problem.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
#78. Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.
Ludwig Von Mises
#79. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man
David Crockett
#80. Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.
Elihu Burritt
#81. We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
George McGovern
#82. Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next.
Paul Rusesabagina
#84. If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with each other even just like that ... then lets, count that as us being together. I'll miss you alot. I love you. I love you ...
T.O.P
#85. Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.
Brent Weeks
#86. In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson
#87. There can be no separation in your organization. You win as a team, you lose as a team.
Mike Shanahan
#88. I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.
Khalil Greene
#90. I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Leon Kass
#91. Old money in Southeast Asia is much more discrete and low key. It's about not wearing brand names. It's about being invisible, almost. The billionaire can be taking the bus with you.
Kevin Kwan
#92. In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.
George Takei
#93. I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
Theodore Bikel
#94. 'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.
Julian Baggini
#95. Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You live in both worlds.You can be harmed by both,and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special.
Rick Riordan
#97. The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
Carl Schmitt
#98. I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises, burning fuel and creating exhaust fumes, but unless the clutch is engaged, nothing moves. It's all sound and smoke, and nobody gets anywhere.
Robert L. Fried
#99. To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
Thomas Paine
#100. Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.
Rouben Mamoulian
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