Top 100 You Can't Get Quotes
#1. Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Richard M. Nixon
#2. You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.
P. J. O'Rourke
#3. We're going to have a lot of different options. Right now you have no options. You know why? Because the insurance company controlled Obama because they gave him a lot of money. That's why you have lines around the states. And you can't get competitive bidding.
Donald Trump
#4. Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong ... ever.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#5. Don't waste Time, you can't get more of it. Even if you give away all you have, you can't get back a Minute.-RVM
R.v.m.
#6. I was in China this year and I spent three weeks there with no luggage, in a really not very nice place and without anything except my passport and my wallet. You're a long way from home and you've got no phone and you can't get in touch with anybody.
Jill Douglas
#7. You can't get back the time in the past. You can't change it. You can only make sure to learn and move forward.
J.B. McGee
#8. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else ... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
John Green
#9. Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'
David Spade
#10. You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication
because, of course, astrology is rubbish.
Quentin Crisp
#11. You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
Max Levchin
#12. I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.
Jermaine O'Neal
#13. As a writer, you can't get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn't want to know.
Billy Marshall Stoneking
#14. You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.
Thomas O'Malley
#16. Most republicans are against contraception because they don't care about it. You can't get pregnant anally anyway.
Chelsea Handler
#17. It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.
Richard Benjamin
#18. Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.
Liz Phair
#19. If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
#20. No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
Ma Jun
#21. Every time you drink an inferior bottle, it is as if you took a fine bottle and smashed it against a wall. You can't get that bottle back!
Len Evans
#22. You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
Henry Rollins
#23. You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.
Eric Davis
#24. I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.
Gina Rodriguez
#26. Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.
Rush Limbaugh
#27. You can't get mad at a bear for being racist. You can't get mad at a bear for being offensive. It's not real.
Mila Kunis
#28. You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.
Idina Menzel
#29. The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
Alicia Keys
#30. You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
Theodore White
#31. But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.
David Axelrod
#32. She wasn't angry. You can't get angry just because the world's so much bigger than you and you're stuck in it.
Catherynne M Valente
#33. Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
Chad Harbach
#34. Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can't get that right, don't call it Scrum, OK?
Ron Jeffries
#35. Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer
it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
Markus Zusak
#36. You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
Jack Buck
#37. If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.
Laura Pritchett
#38. There was a saying in Gilead: Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall." "Uh-huh," Eddie said. "There was a saying in Brooklyn: You can't get snot off a suede jacket.
Stephen King
#39. You can't get away from yourself, but you can get yourself out of the way.
Mike Brown
#40. You can't get where you're going without being where you've been.
Lisa Graff
#41. It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
Erma Bombeck
#42. Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.
Marian Keyes
#43. Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
Dan Webster
#44. You're almost as good as Peabody."
He stopped at the door, grabbed her up in a steaming kiss. "You can't get that from Peabody."
"I could if I wanted." But it made her grin as he uncoded the locks. "But I like you better for sex.
J.D. Robb
#45. It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.
Charlton Heston
#46. I still get excited performing live. when you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic.
Marilyn Manson
#47. You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.
Gail Zappa
#48. Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.
Arthur Wimperis
#49. You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.
Robin Sharma
#50. You can't get where you want to go unless you start with where you are.
Michael Hyatt
#51. You can't get there alone. In fact, you can't get very far at all.
Keith Ferrazzi
#52. I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.
Jeffrey Pierce
#53. Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#54. I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.
Adam Rayner
#55. There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
George W. Bush
#56. You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.
Randeep Hooda
#57. Grief:" You don't get over it you just get through it you don't get by it because you can't get around it it doesn't "get better" it just gets different every day . . . grief puts on a new face.
Brook Noel
#58. A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.
Dave Barry
#59. Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
Aaron Levie
#60. When you reach perfection, it's a sure bet you can't get any better.
Wayne L. Misner
#61. It was you that chose your due,
You built a maze you can't get through.
I tried to help you all I can,
Now I can't do nuttin' for you, man!
Flavor Flav
#62. The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.
Charlotte Bingham
#63. If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can't get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.
Geeta Iyengar
#64. You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.
Neil Peart
#65. He's coming to hate the gratitude of women. It is like being fawned on by rabbits, or like being covered with syrup: you can't get it off.
Margaret Atwood
#66. Have you ever noticed you can't get away from yourself? There is no way to get away from oneself. You're always there with you.
Geoff Herbach
#67. You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#68. Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.
Paul Reiser
#69. You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
Casey Stengel
#70. You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.
Zinedine Zidane
#71. Maybe ... because for the first time ... there was a chance I could keep him," I say.
"So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?"
"Put you somewhere you can't get hurt."
And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.
Suzanne Collins
#72. I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
Anna Kendrick
#73. Wake up. This is your life, for God sakes. It's time to face up to it. You can't get anywhere, can't get over anything, if you don't let yourself feel anything in the first place. It's time.
Julie Buxbaum
#74. What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest.
" Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you can't get at what he means. Still, I like some Shakespeare.
Agatha Christie
#75. Welcome to my dungeon. It's not much," Linc said as he cleaned off a chair for her. "But ... it's
not much." He dumped the files and books on the floor.
"The nice thing about starting at the bottom is, you can't get any lower."
"If I'm a good boy, I'll get my own stapler
Nora Roberts
#76. If you can't get it across in words, then it's better not to try.
Haruki Murakami
#77. But dogs are going to be dogs, ya know? You can't get mad at them for being dogs. I
J.R. Rain
#78. You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.
Kevin Smith
#79. Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.
Ellen Goodman
#80. You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up.
Larry McMurtry
#81. I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.
Apolo Ohno
#82. People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.
Henry Miller
#83. Every hour you are not going after your passion, making your dreams a reality or defining your purpose is an hour you can't get back. Is what you're doing right now, this day, this moment getting you closer to where you want to be? If not, readjust your focus. It's your future. Go get it!
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#84. You can't get a reaction from someone who doesn't give a shit.
Emma Chase
#86. Salvation is the action of an agency outside of yourself to get you out of a difficulty you can't get out of yourself.
Mitchell Chefitz
#87. Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#88. I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.
Garth Brooks
#89. You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable ... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.
Brett Hull
#90. If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
Jesse James Garrett
#91. You can't get a personal computer to work without Windows (this is under the assumption you can actually get Windows to work).
Steven B. Green
#92. But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.
Susane Colasanti
#93. As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.
Aaron Rodgers
#94. Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.
Jessie Burton
#95. Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.
Ralph Marston
#96. You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca
#97. The problem with movies is that you see from the first day - you're on a train, and if the movie is not going in the right direction you know it right away. Sometimes, you can't get off the train, and the whole experience is painful.
Carole Bouquet
#98. That's my advice to people. You can't get hung up on thinking, "Am I the victim in this situation?" No, I'm in charge of it.
Mindy Kaling
#99. There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!
-Harry Wormwood
Roald Dahl
#100. [On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.
Mary McGrory
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