Top 100 Can't Be Quotes
#1. Bad news is, they've figured out I'm alive. Worse news, I can't be sure about them. Their decomposing stench burns my throat. They don't sound very big. Maybe they're pygmy zombies.
A.G. Howard
#2. You see, a secret is not something untold. It's something which can't be told.
Terence McKenna
#3. Bluestar went on: "If you did, you would train with Graypaw to become a Clan warrior." "But kittypets can't be warriors!" Graypaw blurted out. "They don't have warrior blood!
Erin Hunter
#4. I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#5. Three stones for the faces of the mother, four bones ... for whatever reason the charlatans came up with that I can't be bothered to remember.
Sarah J. Maas
#6. I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.
Joseph Conrad
#7. Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait ... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'
Michael Phelps
#8. What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.
Ken Kesey
#9. Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
Robert Lanza
#10. You deserve a man who will take you and keep you, not a man who will have you and leave you. I can't be the man who does that to you.
Elizabeth Finn
#11. I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.
Robert Redford
#12. The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard
#13. Those are the things in the water that keep the moon in orbit. I've never quite understood just how they work. You mostly can't see the moon during the day, so they can't be very efficient.
Matthew Goldman
#14. Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.
P.W. Catanese
#15. People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.
Chris Christie
#16. We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
Tavis Smiley
#17. I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be ... this person who's not ... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not ... Autistic.
Nancy Werlin
#18. Life can't be divided into chapters ... only minutes.
Colleen Hoover
#19. Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.
Alice Hoffman
#20. I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.
Muhammad Ali
#21. Feather Presents are those things life brings that can't be held in the hand, or tied with bows, but are presents none-the-less
Jean Williams
#22. There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
Robert Breault
#23. Grief is loved turned into an eternal missing ... It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.
Rosamund Lupton
#24. The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.
Shunryu Suzuki
#25. Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.
Alafair Burke
#26. God's been good to me, He really has. I don't know why he picked me out ... Just think about it: I virtually coached in my hometown. From the middle of the Meadowlands field, it can't be but a couple of miles. I was lucky to do that.
Bill Parcells
#27. You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.
Chris Bosh
#28. No one should ever be bored. ... One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can't be bored.
G.H. Hardy
#29. Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
Dan Barker
#30. I love going to the movies and getting Raisinets, a big tub of popcorn and a Coke. That's definitely a guilty pleasure because I can't be doing that all the time.
Sanaa Lathan
#31. A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions.
Linda Alfiori
#32. You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
K.J. Bishop
#33. We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
Albert Schweitzer
#34. Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about.
Kim Harrison
#35. People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.
Tony Robbins
#36. However, it still seriously pisses me off that we live in a world where you can't be free to express yourself in whatever strange way you happen to choose.
L. H. Cosway
#37. Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#38. That's calculus in a nutshell. It takes a problem that can't be done with regular math because things are constantly changing - the changing quantities show up on a graph as curves - it zooms in on the curve till it becomes straight, and then it finishes off the problem with regular math.
Mark Ryan
#39. People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.
Megan Abbott
#40. You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
#41. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.
Terry Crews
#42. You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.
John Lennon
#43. Lee explained to her that art for art's sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can't be living a life driven by need and desire.
Nell Zink
#44. You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.
Tom Jones
#45. I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can keep a creative house and work every day from nine to five. Can't be done, folks. Ain't no way.
Pearl Cleage
#46. You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
Idina Menzel
#47. If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.
Raymond Kelly
#48. Am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That is how I explain it to myself. It can't be helped! He said no more, but expressed his
Leo Tolstoy
#49. I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.
Vladimir Kramnik
#50. You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. People are good medicine, but they can't be your foundation of functionality. You must build that yourself.
Heidi Cullinan
#52. You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.
Eva Herzigova
#53. I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
Annie Lennox
#54. For those who kept saying it can't be done:
Never are the victories or the honors won.
But, rather,
By the believing, doing kind,
While the doubters watched
From Far Behind.
Bruce Lee
#55. Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.
Mark Zuckerberg
#56. One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.
Nicholas Sparks
#57. I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory 'managed relationships'. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money.
Anil Ambani
#58. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.
#59. I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years, they have to stop. You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world.
Madonna Ciccone
#60. Truth can't be found in the stars; let the story speak for itself.
L.M. Fields
#61. She's sick and she's been treated badly, but she can't be gone. She had the heart of a lion.
Kristin Hannah
#62. I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
Faith Hill
#63. I'm angry and mean and I can't be bothered to care.
Tahereh Mafi
#64. You don't have in IN you to be like that, Hughie.
You had too nice an upbringing.
Your mom and dad were too good to you.
And I wish you could see that you're not less of a MAN, or some sort of inferior person, just because you can't be harsh and hard and cold.
Garth Ennis
#65. I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
India De Beaufort
#66. Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy
#67. You're an everlasting flame that can't be put out.
Romina Russell
#68. You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
Sheryl Crow
#69. I love the one that can't be loved. Because I just didn't have the luck to love the one that could be loved.
Leydi Morfa
#70. I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.
Adrian McKinty
#71. My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'
Jake Shears
#72. But this is madness. I am going in the wrong direction. There can't be a new life at the end of this.
V.S. Naipaul
#73. I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.
Michelle Williams
#74. Humility can't be bought at a bargain price. It's the long working of grace upon grace within the hurts of our hearts.
Lysa TerKeurst
#75. 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
#76. It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.
Vicky McClure
#77. The pieces of soul can't be cut out without filling them up again, that's a real law there. God's law. Can't cut out the pieces any more than you can go around with a big hole in your gut. Got to be plugged up, replaced somehow.
Robert Hicks
#78. I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems ... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.
Madonna Ciccone
#79. We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.
Jane Fonda
#80. To see someone you love in so much pain - especially emotional pain that can't be remedied - was the worst form of torture.
Laura Kreitzer
#81. I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
Fay Vincent
#82. Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given
it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
Jacqueline Susann
#84. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
Prince
#85. I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.
Ben Hogan
#86. Be authentic and organic. It can't be forced or it won't work. And most importantly, have fun.
Richard Branson
#87. Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.
Narendra Modi
#88. My reputation will always precede me to the day I die. For some people, that probably can't be quickly enough.
Joey Barton
#89. You can't be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you are drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god. That doesn't make you a person of faith ... , that makes you a schizophrenic.
Bill Maher
#90. You can't be a bad girl, unless you actually do something bad."
-Megan Barnett
E. Van Lowe
#91. We enter a time of calamity. Blood on the tarmac. Fingers in the juicer. Towers of air frozen in the lunar wastes. Models dead on the runways, with their legs facing backward. Children with smiles that can't be undone. Chicken shall rot in the aisles. See the pillars fall.
M T Anderson
#92. My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford
#93. So, whatever it is that's stopping you
from being with me, like we both know what you want, then fight it, babe, because I can't be without you a moment longer.
Samantha Towle
#94. No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
Summer Sanders
#95. When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".
Robert Menzies
#96. You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
Paul Wolfowitz
#97. Civilization means transmission, he said. Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist. Get the picture? It'd be good for exactly zero.
Haruki Murakami
#98. I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
Jello Biafra
#99. You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.
Rashida Jones
#100. If you say I hide things because I'm shy, that can't be right. I've finally realized it's for a different reason
that I don't want to see the darkness that lies in my heart
Natsuo Kirino
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