Can You Not Quotes

#1. How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure ... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.

Robin Caroll

#2. Can you not be content to wait a little? Will not your Lord's time - be better than your time?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Blake, your past is my past, your present is my present, and your future is my future. I bear the weight of everything that happens in your life. How can you not see that?

Claire Contreras

#4. Captain, sir,' called Coster from the rear of the shed. 'Cleared to shit.'
'Proceed,' Fa'ared called back.
The Preceptor glared at Coster. 'Can you not wait?

Paul Collins

#5. Can you not see it? Can you not feel how badly I want you? I'm a selfish bastard, I'm worse then you'll ever know, but I'll answer to God or anyone else who tries to stand in our way so long as I know you're safe.

Alexandra Bracken

#6. Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?

Upton Sinclair

#7. Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.

Dick Costolo

#8. How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

Keyshawn Johnson

#9. Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?

A.D. Posey

#10. How can you not know?" Silvestri said again. "Has twelve years of living the way you've been living not shown you how badly people live? The poverty, the hunger, the ignorance, the fear?" "Yes, but times have changed ... " "Yes, times have changed, but people haven't.

Jose Saramago

#11. But the best thing about Spain? Siestas. God bless any country that has decided yes, we shall shut down business and take a long nap in the middle of the day. How can you not love them for that?

Kristen Callihan

#12. Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, "hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

R. Scott Bakker

#13. What if I told you that, not only can you not beat the market, but most stocks actually lose money.

Kenneth Eade

#14. To be your companion."
"Companion?" He said the word as if he were spitting a bad taste from his mouth. "I am a killer. A monster! Can you not see that?

Jettie Necole

#15. I'm crazy about you. How can you not see that? How can anybody that sees me with you not see that? Yes, there have been other girls. And yes, they didn't mean anything to me. But you do, Luce. You mean the world to me.

Jay McLean

#16. Will you not see?" she cried. "You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it?

Jane Gaskell

#17. Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

#18. How can you not love Jack Gleeson? He's amazing. He's the nicest guy.

Sophie Turner

#19. To believe, to act, and to have events confound you - I grant you, that is hard to bear. But to believe, and not to act, or to act in a way that every fiber of your soul held was wrong - how can you not see? That is what would have been reprehensible.

Geraldine Brooks

#20. Nor can I allow you to leave my arms, unless I can be certain you know that this is where you belong. Can you not feel that your place is here - in my arms, in my home, in my life?

Lory Lilian

#21. If my path is with learning and tears and submission, can you not follow that same path?

Ted Dekker

#22. You look at these kids ... thousands and thousands of kids ... and you stop and think, how can you not care?

Curtis R. Welling

#23. How can you not like Britney Spears?

Lindsay Lohan

#24. I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.

Michael Jackson

#25. My dear Boris, can you not take a joke?" "Was it a joke?

Agatha Christie

#26. Shut up!' I shouted. 'Why can you not see that my desire to be rid of you has nothing to do with feistiness or women's problems or fear of being caught, but has everything to do with you!

Katherine Longshore

#27. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?

George Orwell

#28. When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

George Carlin

#29. Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the alteration of day and night, even in the coming and going of clouds.

Said Nursi

#30. ROMEO: Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit
did I give you?
MERCUTIO: The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?

William Shakespeare

#31. How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

Malin Akerman

#32. O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

Dante Alighieri

#33. So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

David Cronenberg

#34. How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

Jason Giambi

#35. Perry's eyes fluttered open. "Don't think about him."
"How can I not? How can you not?"
"You're here. I only want to think about you right now.

Veronica Rossi

#36. What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

Damien Chazelle

#37. Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Angelina Grimke

#38. Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which is tormenting you. What are you afraid of? Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret?

C.S. Lewis

#39. And if there is nothing left of you but darkness, how can you not become a monster?

Alexander Gordon Smith

#40. How can you not see how delicious he is? I just want to put him on a stick and lick him on a hot summer day.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#41. You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

Trip Hawkins

#42. Man's greatest excuse to delay the inevitable." "Can you not fucking talk like your auditioning for the role of Confucius?" "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake." Of course he goes and actually quotes Confucius. Fuck me.

Krista Ritchie

#43. Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

Karl Marx

#44. How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Billy Beane

#45. People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

Todd Rundgren

#46. Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?

PewDiePie

#47. How can you not tweet? How else will people know what you ate for breakfast or what you are listening to on Spotify or what your gamerscore is? Ridiculous. Not tweeting is not an option. I am a dolt for even suggesting it.

Aisha Tyler

#48. So don't. Take him with you. Or date long distance. I honestly don't give a fuck, so long as you stop your whining. How can you not see solutions here? You've apparently decided that you being immortal isn't a deterrent to your great love ... but a two-hour plane ride is?

Richelle Mead

#49. My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

Paula Creamer

#50. I can't understand it when people say they don't like a particular color ... How on earth can you not like a color?

Dale Chihuly

#51. Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?

George Phillips Bond

#52. don't see what this has to do with us." I say back, "Does everything have to be about you? Can you not project yourself outside yourself? Can you not take on another's life for your own benefit?

Richard Ford

#53. I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

A. Whitney Brown

#54. If I can change bodies with anyone, it would be Britney Spears because how can you not like Britney Spears?

Lindsay Lohan

#55. Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"

Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced.

George Orwell

#56. But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!

David Nicholls

#57. When is your birthday?" ( ... )
Wide silver-gold eyes swung to him. "You don't know?"
"No."
Pouting, she twirled a strand of her hair. "How can you not know?"
"Do you know mine?" he asked.
"Of course I do. It's the day you met me.

Gena Showalter

#58. Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.

Charles Hazlewood

#59. How can I tell her ... " His voice broke, and he had to clear his throat. "How the fuck can I explain this to her?"
"How can you not. She loves you.
Vishous - Butch (re. Jane)(Lover Unleashed)

J.R. Ward

#60. Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.

Seth Adam Smith

#61. You make me feel cocky. It's the way you react to me that makes me feel like a fucking god. How can you not see that?

Christina Lauren

#62. Can you not see [hope] burning in her eyes? Does it not make you want to look away when you have none to give in return?

Melina Marchetta

#63. How can you not forgive someone who made you a better person?

Piolo Pascual

#64. How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?" He raised his arms dramatically. "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure

Cassandra Clare

#65. We have all been robbed of the land we have loved for a thousand years. Do you not see that, Welshman? Can you not imagine his rage? We were not even conquered. We were deceived.

Edward Rutherfurd

#66. What? You don't think he's cute?"
"I didn't really notice."
"How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.

Nicholas Sparks

#67. What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?

J.G. Holland

#68. What if I don't believe in magic, Finn?
That's stupid, how can you not believe in magic, Coop? It's everywhere.

J.R. Richardson

#69. You don't know how I feel about you? I try to show you how much I care about you every day. How can you not see that?

Cardeno C.

#70. I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

William Langewiesche

#71. How can you not be affected by disappointments relating to work you love so much?

Amanda Crew

#72. No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#73. I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

Jack White

#74. I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.

Jon Krakauer

#75. When those dreams in that unreachable future suddenly rise up around you, how can you not be blinded to their truths? All at once, it is here. All at once, you are living in its very midst. Why then must you seek to pull away? He

Steven Erikson

#76. Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

Lucy Parsons

#77. It looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.

Em Bailey

#78. It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

Mike Lowry

#79. I had to smile. "How can you not approve of gods when you are one?" He sniffed. "I never asked to be worshipped. Feared, yes." "That's how most religions start. Eddie, the Street is in danger, and so am I.

Simon R. Green

#80. Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

Lauren Bush

#81. How can you not care?"
"Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

Cassandra Clare

#82. For f**k's sake, Joe. I'm not in the mood for your shit." I stop walking, crossing my arms over my chest. "Can you not judge me? Just once?

Cheryl McIntyre

#83. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Mark Twain

#84. You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.

Paul David Tripp

#85. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

Josh Hutcherson

#86. You can be converted from one belief to another, from one dogma to another, but you cannot be converted to the under standing of reality. Belief is not reality. You

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#87. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.

Menna Van Praag

#88. Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility ...

Christopher Cross

#89. But it's not possible to forget anybody you were that hung up on, who was that hung up on you. You can't forget anything that hurt so badly, went so deep, and changed the world forever. It's not possible to forget anybody you've destroyed.

James Baldwin

#90. My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

Rachel Nichols

#91. Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

Virginia Woolf

#92. When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.

David Tennant

#93. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.

Cecilia Grant

#94. The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.

Luise Rainer

#95. Did you know that the center of a Protostar (the star in the middle of a nebula) is called a Nuclear Furnace? So you can call that the star's "heart." The heart of a star is a furnace. Not much unlike the human heart.

C. JoyBell C.

#96. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

#97. There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up in the light and see a hundred facets, and knowing you, you've found a hundred and one.

Nancy Horan

#98. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."

Hillary Clinton

#99. I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

George H. W. Bush

#100. You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

Ryan Lochte