Top 100 It Can't Be Quotes
#1. We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition,
Hugo Chavez
#2. Sometimes the fans want it both ways, of course. They want to feel like they're influencing the show, and at the same time, they want to think that showrunners have the story all mapped out in our brains. But it can't be both. In truth, we were usually far ahead of the fan feedback.
Carlton Cuse
#3. I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there
James Baldwin
#5. Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.
Denis Healey
#6. It can't be any worse than whatever it is Annarion's doing."
"You are devoid of an active imagination, which is disappointing considering the experience you have now amassed.
Michelle Sagara
#7. American adult children, and I think most adult children, seem to believe that they are entitled to a perfect relationship with their parents and if it can't be perfect, if it is challenging in any way, then they are justified in abandonment because she/he is just too difficult to relate to.
Sharon Wildey
#8. Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads ... it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.
Karen Maezen Miller
#9. So what if you believe it can't be done. Stop trying to prevent those who do believe from reaching for the stars.
Teyla Branton
#10. When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can't be so, you don't get demons our side of the river, the guards won't let them over London Bridge.
Hilary Mantel
#11. Each repetition pales by degrees because, when you return to what you already know, it can't be experienced for the first time.
Deepak Chopra
#12. One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.
Gary Cooper
#13. No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!
Charles M. Schulz
#14. It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.
Geno Auriemma
#15. No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
Stuart Hughes
#16. I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.
Anna Sui
#17. Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
Kim Cattrall
#18. Never let the evil people do to you turn you to monster. It can't be all that's left of you.
Darmie Orem
#19. Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.
Kim Harrison
#20. It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Lance Armstrong
#21. True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
#22. Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
Tom Peters
#23. It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.
Gerhard Richter
#24. I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
#25. Stay away from 'it-can't-be-done-people' because they are often mistaken! All you need is to have 'it-can-be-done-people' around you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.
That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.
It always leaves room for the other to decide.
God says yes,
we can have what we want,
because love wins.
Rob Bell
#27. The fallacy of trying to time the highs and lows Trying to time the highs and lows of the market is a fool's game. It can't be done with any reliability, and you shouldn't waste your time trying.
Jesse Mecham
#28. The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can't be situational or it's not right or wrong.
Ilona Andrews
#29. Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried
Bob Dylan
#31. .:Just 'coz experiences have showed that it can't be done a certain way, doesn't necessary means one is to quit trying:..
Rafael Garcia
#32. It can't be pretty without being ugly first.
Kambri Crews
#34. I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.
Sebastian Barry
#35. It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!
Thelonious Monk
#36. Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.
Daniel Radcliffe
#37. True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
Y. C. James Yen
#38. When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.
Cecelia Ahern
#39. So she needs a man!" Hakeswill said. "And a sergeant's widow doesn't get rogered by a stinking bit of dirt like you. It ain't right. Ain't natural. It's beneath her station, Sharpie, and it can't be allowed. Says so in the scriptures.
Bernard Cornwell
#40. You gotta give a woman a reason to go along - a good reason. It's gotta have appeal, and it can't be just a romp in the sack. That might be the end game but you gotta dress it up.
Jack Dancer
#41. Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .
Stephen King
#42. The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.
Margaret Atwood
#43. I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
Edmund Hillary
#44. If you are determined to succeed - just remember - success is sealed in a can, it can't be bought, but it must be in your thought, for if you can - you can.
Ency Bearis
#45. Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.
Sam Shepard
#46. So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.
Nick Hornby
#47. There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.
Gina Bellman
#48. Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.
Rick Perry
#49. Luckily i went out and just did it, successfully, before i was told that it can't be done!
Den-J
Denis John George
#50. Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midwife says it can't be a real smile, not yet, just some passing gas or a random quiver of his lip, but I know she's wrong.
J.P. Delaney
#51. Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
Damien Hirst
#52. If someone tells you it can't be done. Smile and humbly agree. Then go back and work so hard that you can prove them wrong equally as fast.
Avijeet Das
#53. Intellectually he knows that the blood is being pressed to the back of his body, pooling in the back part of his cerebellum and flooding his kidneys. He hasn't done enough medical work to know what that means, but it can't be good.
James S.A. Corey
#54. Sometimes I wonder if you should be on medication," Charlie said. "It can't be healthy to have you thinking all by yourself without some kind of pharmaceutical intervention.
T.J. Klune
#55. A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
Napoleon Hill
#56. To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.
Robert Silverberg
#57. The combination of radish, butter, salt, and bread seems like it can't be improved upon, except perhaps if you replace the butter with avocado, which I think of as vegetable butter.
Clotilde Dusoulier
#58. Namir snorted. "What is it with you people and Vader?" he asked. "It can't be the helmet that scares people. Stormtroopers have helmets.
Ballantine Books
#59. For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures.
Tom Rath
#60. Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.
Ayn Rand
#61. I think these pipe-smokers oughta just move to the next level and go ahead and suck a dick. There's nothing wrong with suckin' dicks. Men do it, women do it; can't be all bad if everybody's doin' it. I say, Drop the pipe, and go to the dick! That's my advice. I'm here to help.
George Carlin
#62. You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
Rex Stout
#63. But it can't be true that he drifts from one reality to another, independent of the logic of time. This is not possible. You are made out of time. This is the force that tells you who you are. Close your eyes and feel it. It is time that defines your existence.
Don DeLillo
#64. Yes, I need the money. I mean no, I don't. It can't be reduced to money. I can't explain why I do it. It's a kind of impulse.
Rachel Kushner
#65. Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.
Terry Pratchett
#66. Or perhaps I've already despaired - and decided that while despair is fine as an occasional indulgence, it can't be served three times a day.
Sherry Thomas
#67. A good door needs no lock, still it can't be opened.
Laozi
#68. I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.
Kato Kaelin
#69. The period of time it takes a pictsie to go from normal to mad fighting mood is so tiny it can't be measured on the smallest clock.
Terry Pratchett
#70. Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...
Eric Berlin
#71. If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
Bernard Baruch
#72. No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves ... with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.
Alethea Kontis
#73. I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably it is for good".
Deyth Banger
#74. The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
Samantha Power
#75. When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.
Lynn Hill
#77. There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. Bollocks. It does exist
Sam Allardyce
#78. I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
Don Bluth
#79. It can't be," Udecht stammered. "Eadran the Vanquisher destroyed him near a millennium ago. Maelgrum is gone. Finished."
"My dear bishop, he isn't exactly alive, I grant you," the hooded medusa teased. "But he is certainly a lot less dead than you would like.
T.O. Munro
#80. When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.
Barbara Delinsky
#81. The partnership between the United States and Egypt is crucial to both countries, and it can't be predicated on political manipulation and threats of withholding aid.
Ahmed Zewail
#82. When it comes to other celebrity brands, I think a lot of people do a great job, but it can't be all about them. Everybody doesn't want to just look like the celebrity, because they can't. They just want one element of that style.
Jessica Simpson
#84. There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
Barbara Coloroso
#85. This can't be real. It can't be. It's a nightmare. I'll wake up and find it's all been a nightmare. I mustn't think of it now, or I'll begin screaming in front of all these people. I can't think of it now. I'll think later, when I can stand it - when I can't see his eyes.
Margaret Mitchell
#86. If you think something's too hard, it will be. If you think it's just not possible or not possible for you, then you'll probably be right. If you think it can't be done then you're not the person to do it. Because you'll fail.
Peggy Haymes
#87. It can't be anyone but you
I understand the reason now
Like an angel gently descending,
You taught me the meaning of living on earth
Whispering,"I want you to protect me,"
You supported my heart
Kozue Chiba
#88. Why can't life be easy, why can't love be just wonderful, why can't math be counting 1,2,3 Why it can't be you and me..?
Mrs M.
#89. The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.
Bodhidharma
#90. There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.
Al Roker
#91. I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then.
Nicholas Sparks
#92. Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done.
Steven D. Levitt
#93. Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
Bo Bennett
#94. I don't actually think "true love" is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
Aidan Chambers
#95. Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.
Gorgias
#96. They're going to say that because no one else has ever done something, that it can't be done. You have to be crazy enough to believe that you are the one person in the history of the world who can create that change or accomplish that dream.
Ronda Rousey
#97. Don't blame you for trying to run away from yourself, but it can't be done - not even in a Buick.
Kurt Vonnegut
#98. When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.
Jodi Picoult
#99. The path we're taking is not a road, Kiyo, it's a pier, and it ends someplace where the sea begins. It can't be helped.
Yukio Mishima
#100. Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph ... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of the heart, of finances, of family, of dreams ... it is real pain and it can't be ignored.
Hayley Williams
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