Top 100 Can You Be Quotes
#1. How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
Mary Astell
#2. But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?' 'I'm nothing.' 'Can you be nothing?' I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing.
Jaume Cabre
#3. How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
Daniel Day-Lewis
#4. Can you be bought?" Pilar demanded.
Maddy slid into the booth, grinned. "Sure."
"Let's negotiate." Pilar sat down beside her.
Nora Roberts
#5. How naive can you be before it becomes unforgivable?
Dennis Lehane
#6. Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love."
"He says only if you love yourself.
Theodore Sturgeon
#7. If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave?
Tove Jansson
#8. Can you live with that? Can you be so fucking selfless to take me at my worst, my best, my messed-up self and stand by me even when I break?
Pepper Winters
#9. If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?
Joe Abercrombie
#10. How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?
Billy Porter
#11. Only if you are reaady to change yourself can you be ready to change the world.
Edit Schlaffer
#12. How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#13. With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don't have to play it - it's just gotta be there, and if the story's good and the script's good, people will see it.
Robert Taylor
#14. How can you be confident when someone else holds your fate?
Conner, kiss the Sky
Krista Ritchie
#15. How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.
Confucius
#16. If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#17. It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
Marcus Allen
#18. Bryan helped me up. "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"
I shrugged. "I've never been very athletic. Not unless you count fencing."
"You made fences?
John Corwin
#19. You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny.
Steve Martin
#20. Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?"
"It sucked."
"Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks.
"It really sucked," I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.
Simone Elkeles
#21. Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved
Roger Rosenblatt
#22. How can you be a physics major and be shocked when you get pregnant from having sex?
Sister Souljah
#23. Can you be disappointed by the loss of something that had only begun to flicker with the promise of existence?
Abigail Johnson
#24. How can you be with someone if you never see them?
Jennifer Close
#25. Okay, so I want to talk about it. Dammit, how can you be so good at the whole keeping things to yourself thing? It's really hard.
Samantha Young
#26. Be yourself, because really, who else can you be ... ?
James A. Murphy
#27. Can you be serious for two words?"
"Not without effort.
Steven Brust
#28. Of all the guile! How can you be objective? You have no perspective! You're only 16!
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#29. You say that you don't care about age and that you're ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?
Edmund White
#30. Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?
Rajneesh
#31. Until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?
Eloise Lownsbery
#32. You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?
Joseph Heller
#33. Find yourself, who are you?
Choose yourself, who can you be?
Define yourself to find your destination.
Debasish Mridha
#34. How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?" I said.
Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. "Exploit the oppressor," she said.
Robert B. Parker
#35. Only when you decide to truly live can you be free of your fears, and only when you are free of your fears can you truly live.
Bryant McGill
#36. I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
Ned Vizzini
#37. The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the problem is, if you don't have a self, how can you be with other people? Who the hell are you with them?
Leigh Newman
#39. How can you be alive, now, if you were dead?" "Well, death isn't what it used to be.
Terry Goodkind
#40. Exactly. They dumped gasoline all over the gym and set fire to it. When no one was there training, luckily," Olympia says. "How can you be so sure it was them?" "They called me at home to let me know.
Pierdomenico Baccalario
#41. Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.
Katherine Dunn
#42. can you be a daughter.
if you have no
mother language."
- african american iii
Nayyirah Waheed
#43. And you're my mother? How can you be my mother? You're . . ." "Black?" She laughed so cleanly and joyfully that Lilly couldn't help but join her, though still completely perplexed. "Dear one, how beautiful is black, which includes and keeps all color?
William Paul Young
#44. In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
Sam Shepard
#45. It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.
Stephen Graham Jones
#46. If you are taught how to love, your love is going to be false. Real love should be spontaneous. How can you be taught to love? If you are taught, then you will act accroding to those rules and the natural flow will not be there.
Osho
#47. I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth."
"How can you be sure?"
"Because she'd do the same for you.
Rick Riordan
#48. How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?
Miranda Kenneally
#49. Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'
John Fugelsang
#51. Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'
Melanie Laurent
#52. One the grand paradoxes of existence and nonexistence is the uncertainty of uncertainty. Even uncertainty can be uncertain. However, can you be certain of such uncertainty?
Lionel Suggs
#53. How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?
Sorin Cerin
#54. How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!
Kai Greene
#55. You are the belle of the ball tonight." He said as he moved in closer. "How can you be so sinfully beautiful Mrs. Norman?
Barry Gray
#56. Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
Al McGuire
#57. How can you be smug? YOU'RE TIED TO A TABLE LIKE A DAMN SACRIFICE! I don't appreciate your tone.
Suzanne Wright
#58. How ignorant can you be to hurt another person? You cannot hurt someone else without hurting yourself first.
Debasish Mridha
#59. A piercing screech from above caught my attention. However, it was the arm landing beside me with teeth marks that let me know what was going on.
"Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?"
- Faith, Witch Devotions
Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
#61. If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?
Sandra Scofield
#62. You won't hurt me. I know you won't." Logan said.
"How can you be so sure?" I whispered.
"Because you're that Gypsy girl, and I'm the bad-boy Spartan. And I think it's time we were finally together, don't you?
Jennifer Estep
#63. How can you be so sure that your life is the one that's charmed?
Jodi Picoult
#64. Can you be happy here, lass?" She smiled and turned her gaze to the beautiful land covered in green and budding flowers. "I am happy wherever you are, husband.
Maya Banks
#65. I'm starved." -Juli
"How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth
"Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki
Lynsay Sands
#66. The only way a relationship between you and God can be established is if you become grateful and build up a standard of gratitude. Only then will fulfillment come in life. Only then can you be happy in life. Only then will you be fulfilled in life. Because in God we trust and in God we dwell.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#67. How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?
Mark Zero
#68. How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.
Neil Gaiman
#69. Can you be sure?"
"I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them.
Jessica Day George
#70. You don't think we're related?
What? Seth burst into laughter. No.
How can you be so sure? Because if we're pulling a Luke and Leia, I'm going to barf.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#71. Can you be inside and outside at the same time?
I think this is where I live.
I think this is where most women live.
I know this is where writers live.
Inside to write. Outside to glean.
Terry Tempest Williams
#72. How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.
Frederick Lenz
#73. The shortest path to success in art, if I could put it into words, is altruism, but if you don't care about anything in the world, and even get angry at people that show you the truth, how can you be altruistic?
Daniel Marques
#74. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
Nina Simone
#75. How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity.
J. Cole
#76. How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
Orlando Bloom
#77. Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.
Ruby Wax
#78. Can you be brave?' I did not know. I did not think so. It seemed to me that all I had done so far that night was to run from things.
Neil Gaiman
#79. Republicans are definitely pro-birth - they'll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?
Jennifer Granholm
#80. How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
Sylvia Plath
#81. How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?
Doc Rivers
#82. How can you be so sure about me?" He leveled his spellbinding gaze on my face. "When you've been in the dark as long as I have, moy angel, there is no mistaking the light.
Kresley Cole
#83. Anybody who says "I know how to get to God and you don't, do this and do that and go here and go there" is going to become 1. very powerful and 2. very rich. The simple truth is, if I am with God, no less can you be with God at the same time as I am.
C. JoyBell C.
#84. You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
John Lloyd
#85. How can you be a mistake? Have you seen you?
Katy Evans
#86. Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.
Veronica Roth
#87. Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?
Catherine Hardwicke
#88. How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
V.S. Naipaul
#89. Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#90. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anyone else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.
E. E. Cummings
#91. How can you be so fucking beautiful and so fucking wrong?
Hank Moody
#92. How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely ...
Joseph Delaney
#94. How can you be so sure?" Lenk asked. "That there's no plan?" "Because," Mocca said as he eyed the bottle, "I can't imagine any God would be boring enough to want to know how everything ends.
Sam Sykes
#95. CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
Quentin Tarantino
#96. Because if you can't be your own weird self on the internet, where can you be? And what would be the point?
Felicia Day
#97. If you think like others, how can you be sure you're thinking at all?
Daniel Delgado F.
#98. They stood locked together for the space of a few breaths. He frantically tried to triage his concerns but only came up with questions.
"How can you be a water dragon? They were all killed."
"Apparently not." Her smile was grim.
Susannah Scott
#99. How can you be forever grateful when forever isn't something anyone has.
Pepper Winters
#100. If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist around you everywhere. Who are you? You are among the living, but can you be certain?
Susan Griffin
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