Top 100 You Can't Go Quotes
#1. If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.
Aleksandar Hemon
#2. You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.
Chuck Klosterman
#3. What?" he said. "What? What? What?" "Master, you're walking on the water," said Peter. "I just ate," Joshua said. "You can't go into the water for an hour after you eat. You could get a cramp. What, none of you guys have mothers?
Christopher Moore
#4. What?" She gasps. "Who did you do it with? You can't go out there and pick up some random stranger. Oh no, Carrie. You didn't. You didn't pick up some guy at a bar.
Candace Bushnell
#5. With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.
Bill Kurtis
#6. You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Fran Lebowitz
#7. Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
Arthur Phillips
#8. If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.
Lenny Wilkens
#9. You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.
Rob Brown
#10. Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you.
Richelle Mead
#11. If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#13. Now you know that you can't go wrong ... If you start each day with a song.
Jimmy Durante
#14. You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
John Steinbeck
#15. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to need it, to feel like you can't go on without it, only to have it dangled right in front of your face? That torture, that mental torment, is worse than any physical pain you may perceive, angel
J.M. Darhower
#16. When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'
Bill Cosby
#17. Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen.
Anton Corbijn
#18. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Acting is a privilege not a priority. Education is the priority. If you're not bringing home As and Bs, you can't go on the audition."
Aldis Hodge
#19. You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.
Kobe Bryant
#20. You can't go back', she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. 'That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be'.
Robin Hobb
#21. There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.
Mary Hoffman
#22. If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#23. You can't go on this grand adventure with God and keep your old way of thinking.
Lysa TerKeurst
#24. Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.
Matt Stone
#25. What you can't go through on your own, God will help you fly over.
Woodrow Kroll
#26. You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
Josephine Baker
#27. It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
Ozzy Osbourne
#28. But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.
Joan Rivers
#29. I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can't go any further.
Harry Callahan
#30. The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.
Alexander Wang
#31. If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it.
Louis C.K.
#32. I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
Gillian Flynn
#33. L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat!
Jessica Lowndes
#34. I guess the lesson is you can't go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.
Charles Finch
#35. I know you can't go back, so I try to do all the things other teenagers do.
LeAnn Rimes
#36. You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.
Terry Pratchett
#37. Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
Karen Elson
#38. Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.
Mary Stewart
#39. I say to those people who are desperately trying to get healthy, in those moments where you feel like you can't go any further, you can.
Mo'Nique
#40. Nothing to it. You treat folk the way you'd want to be treated, and you can't go far wrong.
Joe Abercrombie
#41. You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.
Wayne Dyer
#42. You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
Casey Stengel
#43. You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy. I would go a month, two months, without having sex. It worked for me because it made me a vicious animal. You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.
Jake LaMotta
#44. The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. That's why you are there. For the game, you can't go away from the game and beat your chest. People are there to watch the game. You are there to supplement, not to override or overwhelm.
Al Michaels
#45. You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.
Alan Cumming
#46. The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
#47. Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.
Lenny Bruce
#48. Let's put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll Grayson would be my maid/man of honor. Alaska and Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines and Let it Snow would be my best friends. In short- you can't go wrong with John Green. Ever.
Emma Crape
#49. You're right ... you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can
Elizabeth Scott
#50. There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.
Dana Reinhardt
#51. If you can't go for good deeds, don't go for bad ones.
Waseem Latif
#53. I dont know why, but I feel some pain when she knew I was writing a lot of writing for her and when she suddenly wrote one, it's not for me. You can't go on with the situation like that, it could have kill you at the exact moment.
Ariel Seraphino
#54. I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
Karl Rove
#55. The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.
Charles Kuralt
#56. Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.
Angus Young
#57. When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human
being you used to be. You're never the same after that - it changes you forever and not in a good way
- and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them did the owner get intrigued and let me go around the yard to find stuff. Because the insurance regulations are such that you can't go into the places anymore.
Z'EV
#59. I'm one of those people - I really feel that you can't go lookin' for love, love will come to you.
Romeo Miller
#60. To be a Christian, you can't go with the flow. You have to go by the Word of God.
Jim Cymbala
#61. That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then ... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
Liz Phair
#62. As I always used to tell Thomas Wolfe, there are three things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
Bill Bryson
#63. No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry..
Justin Halpern
#64. Authenticity is the seed of your identity and you can't go wrong with it in life.
Euginia Herlihy
#65. It's simple. Listen to your heart. With everything you do, listen to your heart. If your heart feels right, you can't go wrong.
Jim Devitt
#66. You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.
Joe Slovo
#67. The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!
Andrea Jung
#68. I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
Vanilla Ice
#69. You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
Preston Sturges
#70. You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
#71. A smile is nature's freeway: it has lanes, and you can go any speed you like, except you can't go back
James M. Cain
#72. If you're interested in expanding your network, you can't go wrong with Twitter. You don't need to be a celebrity to have fun and grow your network with Twitter.
Raymond Arroyo
#73. In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
Zoe Saldana
#74. The dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but ... you can't go home again ... you can't go ... back home to the escapes of
Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again
Thomas Wolfe
#75. An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.
Miranda July
#76. And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
Paulo Coelho
#77. Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.
Shai Agassi
#78. Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be.
Donna Douglas
#80. When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
Sammy Sosa
#81. You can't go to the pharmacy to buy a pack of experience, you have to be in those games in order to acquire that experience.
Bob Hartley
#82. If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
Cyndi Lauper
#83. What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll misunderstand, and you'll have to do something to show him that it's not him that you're afraid of.
David Eddings
#84. Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Fairfax Cone
#85. You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.
Robert Downey Jr.
#86. You can't go round looking like a rag.
Gin Wigmore
#87. No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
John Green
#88. Organic' ... means that the work is an extension of your blood and body: it has the rhythm of nature. There exists a state of feeling that when you reach it, when you hit it, you can't go wrong. The work carries a body rhythm. You can't do the slick ... the gimmicky or dishonest.
Nell Blaine
#89. You couldn't begin to imagine who I am, where I'm going, or what I'm about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can't go anywhere, forward or back. But I'm not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.
Haruki Murakami
#90. As the actor, you can't go in saying, 'I'm the bad guy.' You've got to think your reasons for doing what you're doing are good.
Sendhil Ramamurthy
#91. Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Cher
#92. Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ...
Agatha Christie
#93. God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.
Patrick Madrid
#94. Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong.
Eric Idle
#95. The other thing about moments that are given to us? They're limited. We don't get an endless amount. If you miss them, they're gone. Time machines don't exist; you can't go back and fix what's been broken.
Rachel Van Dyken
#96. Stick with your passion, and keep moving forward. You can't go wrong.
Tohoru Masamune
#97. Why would you give someone the power to tell you that you can't go further when they don't even know how far you've come?
Steve Maraboli
#98. Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.
Eric Weiner
#99. You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.
Ryan Gosling
#100. You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.
Tom Stoppard
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