Top 100 We Can't Be Quotes
#1. Kiss me back into place and remind me why we can't be together.
Ahmed Mostafa
#2. 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.
#3. If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.
Raymond Kelly
#4. 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
#5. One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
Colin Powell
#6. We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.
Hillary Clinton
#7. We've lost the sense of our own divinity. We think that we're separate from God, but we can't be. We must be like what we came from, and we came from an infinite, loving, kind, beautiful Source. We've forgotten that.
Wayne Dyer
#9. We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.
Kim Young-ha
#10. If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now - and with good reason, as we can't be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.
Sharon Gannon
#11. We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
Mercedes Lackey
#12. Almost, I thought. Out loud I said, Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.
Auden
Sarah Dessen
#13. On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.
Thomas Bernhard
#14. I dropped you on your head when you were a baby," she shrugged so damn casually. "We can't be perfect, Laney.
Kimberly Lauren
#15. I know we could accept the things we can't be for each other, and even turn it into the poetic tragedy of our lives. Or we could act. I want to act. I want this to happen. Kosi is a good
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#16. If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.
Pope Francis
#17. Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land ... We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.
Muhammad Ali
#18. The Germans don't want us, or did you not get that when they started dragging people into the streets and killing them? We can't be Jews and Germans, not any more. You have to get that through your thick head, Japhet Buchanan. You're a Jew and only a Jew.
Jack Lewis Baillot
#19. You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.
Nathan Shedroff
#20. I know I talk a lot of shit ... but I'm serious." His warm thumb glides over my cheek and then across my bottom lip. "And since we can't be loud for your dad's sake, let me be gentle. Let me show you how much I care.
Skyla Madi
#21. If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
#22. I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.
Amanda Hocking
#23. If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
Nancy Gibbs
#24. If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
Krista Tippett
#25. I'm just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can't be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?
Zooey Deschanel
#26. "Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".
Terry Pratchett
#27. We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.
David Hunt
#28. If we can't be the best, are we just wasting our time?
Cara Chow
#29. Willpower doesn't change everything. We can't be just anything we want to be. My mother couldn't will herself to be like she was when she was thirty or forty. She couldn't choose to be normal - her muscles were degenerating.
Darcy Leech
#30. You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together
Francesca Lia Block
#31. As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#33. We can't be fighting everybody at one time.
Donald Trump
#34. We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time.
Ray Bradbury
#35. As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.
Erica Jong
#36. The Bible says no one has ever looked upon God and lived. God is perfectly good, and can't be in the presence of evil, even the smallest evil. Without his Son's sacrifice as a covering, we can't be in the presence of God without being destroyed, because his anger would be kindled against us.
John Michael Hileman
#37. Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.
Elisabeth Elliot
#38. No matter how hard the Man tries to sterilize us, I take solace in the fact that that we can't be erased.
Eddie Huang
#39. We have to do one thing at a time. We can't be fighting ISIS and fighting [Bashar]Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS. He is fighting ISIS. Russia is fighting now ISIS. And Iran is fighting ISIS.
Donald Trump
#40. We can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.
Alexandra Elle
#41. I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.
Richelle Mead
#42. You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.
Ray McGovern
#43. We can never be sure just which other business cards are in the pocket of pundit, politician, or professor. We can't be sure, in short, just who our elites are working for. But we suspect it is not us.
Christopher L. Hayes
#44. We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
Natasha Hamilton
#45. We can't be friends. I can't be friends with you, because I love you, and you've hurt me.
J. Lynn
#46. We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions, we end our search for them. And God. Soon enough, we'll all come to realize we can't be God. We'll settle for telling ourselves we can. Or we'll just make one up.
Brian Krans
#47. The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.
Ellen DeGeneres
#48. We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
Jeff Bezos
#49. We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.
Noreena Hertz
#50. We can't be searching for the meaning of life, at each moment of our life! We need to go out there and live each moment!
Avijeet Das
#51. Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
Rachel Joyce
#52. Alyssa: This was a mistake. We can't be friends, Demetri. It won't work.
Demetri: I agree. I want to be so much more than that.
Rachel Van Dyken
#53. We can't be good enough or perfect enough. We have to trust Christ to be good enough for us.
Janice Cantore
#55. We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good.
Thrity Umrigar
#56. Are you for real? You can't use another friend? We can't be 'just friends'? - Liz. Hell no - Thoreau.
Whitney G.
#57. One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
#58. The funniest guy I've ever worked with - it's just one of those things, again, where we look at each other and just laugh - is Jimmy Byrnes from 'Wiseguy.' Jimmy - we can't be in the same room together. He knows he can make me laugh just by looking at me.
Jonathan Banks
#59. We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.
Kevin McCarthy
#60. We have to get rid of ISIS first. After we get rid of ISIS, we'll start thinking about it. But we can't be fighting [Bashar] Assad. And when you're fighting Assad, you are fighting Russia, you're fighting - you're fighting a lot of different groups.
Donald Trump
#61. We can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#63. At some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are ...
John Geddes
#64. Unless we're honest with each other, we can't connect. We can't be intimate.
Donald Miller
#65. What's heartbreaking isn't that we can't be together. It's that now, I know better and now; I will never be able to love you or anyone else in the same way again.
Hafsa Shah
#66. If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
Marianne Moore
#67. We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.
Sheryl Crow
#68. There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.
Jennifer Granholm
#69. We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!
Susan Powter
#70. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.
Philip Gulley
#71. If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.
Jean Reno
#72. The government has no business knowing how much money we make and how we made it. It's none of their business. And that's why I believe that manufacturing is critical. If we can't feed ourselves, fuel ourselves and fight for ourselves, we can't be free.
Mike Huckabee
#73. Give me one reason why we can't be together, and I'll give you a hundred why we can.
Alexandra Bracken
#74. The thing is we can't be attached to anything we've experienced up to this point in our life - any person, any situation, any outcomes, any happiness, any pain - any of it.
Art Hochberg
#75. We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.
Joanna Garcia
#76. We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
Mark Lawrence
#77. We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ...
William J. Clinton
#78. It's funny how we feel so much but we don't say a word, we're screaming inside but we can't be heard.
Wiz Khalifa
#79. We can't be both human and divine. To be human is to be imperfect." When
Patricia Engel
#80. We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.
Deborah Cox
#81. We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.
Dorothy Love
#82. we can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.
Lee Strobel
#83. Because it is about that which we can't be prepared for - the great test we men have passed before, but have no way of knowing we will pass again.
Hanif Kureishi
#84. Men don't like me. I haven't been on a date for six months. I've just started a club with a girlfriend called the We Hate Men But We Can't Be Gay Club.
Lara Stone
#85. We can't be afraid to change. You may fell secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know there is a such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, maybe the very reason you don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.
#86. We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
Nick Hornby
#87. We can't be sad about it forever, you know? We've got to think back to the good times and just remember them; that's all we can do. We can't worry about the past or what happened at the end, any more. I can't and you can't.
Sarah Dessen
#90. If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.
Frank Zappa
#91. Ruby, give me one reason why we can't be together, and I'll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I'm not your parents. I'm not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.
Alexandra Bracken
#92. I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.
Andrew Forrest
#93. Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.
Sarah Dessen
#94. When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
Christine Pelosi
#95. That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.
Poppy Adams
#96. Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
#97. No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
Doris Lessing
#98. We have the potential for making massive change ... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.
Anthony D. Barnosky
#99. One thing is for sure, we can't be powerful and pitiful at the same time.
Sandra M. Michelle
#100. We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
George Brandis
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