Top 100 You Can't Have Quotes
#1. And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
Arthur Laffer
#2. I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
Caitlin Thomas
#4. It is okay of airing out your frustration, just don't dwell on them. Find out the cause and find a solution of getting rid of it. If you can't have the solution much as well accept it.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#5. I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.
Ronnie Dunn
#6. What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?
Michael Chabon
#7. Faith or Worry. Pick one, because you can't have both.
Amanda Penland
#8. You can't have an up without a down, a left without a right - and you can't have good times without expecting bad.
Harlan Coben
#9. Does it make sense to lose out on love because you're trying to protect yourself from something that might never happen? It's called risk, and you can't have a full life without it.
Tonya Lampley
#10. You can't have any doubt whatsoever when operating in the faith realm. Sometimes the least little
hesitation can allow doubt to override faith. So we mustn't hesitate anytime the Holy Spirit tells/prompts us to act.
Calvin W. Allison
#11. You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.
Adi Godrej
#12. You can't have relationships if you're not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.
Martina Boone
#13. A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.
Old Tom Morris
#14. As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.
Dorothy Parker
#15. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
#16. You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Frank Miller
#17. As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.
Semir Zeki
#18. You can't have a goal without determination, because without the determination the goal will die.
Patrick L. Turner
#19. You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole.
Guus Hiddink
#20. You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.
Jerry Reed
#21. When you can't have freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?
Brandon Sanderson
#22. I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.
Jack Welch
#23. I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman
#25. You can't have the highs in life without a few lows
Jon Johanson
#26. Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.
Gillian Shields
#27. She's like that first taste of something you can't have - that priceless sip of Macallan poured neat - and no matter how many times you're lucky enough to get just a splash more, it's never enough to get you drunk...
The sip of Macallan that ruins you for all others.
K. Bromberg
#28. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.
Cassandra Clare
#29. I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
Ben Okri
#30. You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.
Peter McWilliams
#31. You can't have a relationship in a bubble. It won't survive.
Kiera Cass
#32. Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.
Drew Brees
#33. You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Stephen Sondheim
#34. You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe ... the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with the issues that this country needs to grapple with to determine its future.
Olympia Snowe
#35. You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
Jeremy Sisto
#36. and of course people started shooting, because that's what passes for problem-solving among humans. See, guys, this is why you can't have nice things. It
Erin Bow
#37. It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.
Ray Nagin
#38. Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature than boyfriends lately, but I guess you can't have everything.
Susanna Kaysen
#39. You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.
Charles Eisenstein
#40. Less is More. It's the Chocolate Chip in your cookie. Yes, it's delicious. But you can't have a cookie that's *all* chocolate chip. It just doesn't work.
Patrick Rothfuss
#41. You can't have your cake and let your neighbour eat it too.
Ayn Rand
#42. How d'you want me to put it? You waltzed off on a whim and left us to pick up the pieces. Now you suddenly swan back and expect us to carry on where we left off! You can't have it both ways--either we were affected by your departure or we weren't. Which do you prefer?
Jonathan Stroud
#43. Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
Debi Thomas
#44. Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?
Joe Wurzelbacher
#45. You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
Richard Pryor
#46. No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair
What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken
Nora Roberts
#47. You can't have an animal in here, Sheen."
"I'm in a wheelchair, man. You gonna tell me I can't have my seeing-eye cat with me? Actually, it can be your seeing-eye cat, since you're blind and all. One of the perks to being a pathetic figure is that I tend to get what I want.
Amy Harmon
#48. Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation
Julian Burnside
#50. You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.
Lee Iacocca
#52. You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place.
Douglas Massey
#53. You want a thing when you can't have it. When you get it you suddenly sprout doubts. Then when you think you might lose it you find you need it worse than ever.
Joe Abercrombie
#54. If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got
Ed Sheeran
#55. You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.
Noel Gallagher
#56. Do you think it's possible that wanting someone you can't have is your subconscious mind's way of coping?
Richelle Mead
#57. The most exquisite paradox ... as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
Ram Dass
#58. And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.
Johnny Depp
#59. You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
Salman Rushdie
#60. You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
Karen Kingsbury
#61. There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
Barbara Sher
#62. It just always seems it goes that the one you can't have is the one you want.
Lanie Kincaid
#63. You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or it can be liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be.
Tonya Hurley
#64. You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
Rupert Murdoch
#65. When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.
Helen Fisher
#66. History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.
Jim Webb
#67. You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Steve Wright
#69. You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.
Evangeline Lilly
#70. No whimpering, madam! You can't have the joys of motherhood without some of its pangs! Think of your blessings, and don't be a coward! -
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#71. Closely - you can't have a front without a back, you can't have an up without a down, and I'm not sure you can have light without dark, purity without sleaze, good without evil.
Harlan Coben
#72. You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
Pat Summitt
#74. You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
Bill Gates
#75. Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#77. You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.
Pedro Martinez
#78. But of course, without the top you can't have any sides. It's the top that defines the sides.
Robert M. Pirsig
#79. You can't have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it's not going to be a regular practice.
Craig Adams
#80. My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
Paul Walker
#81. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
Natalie Babbitt
#82. Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.
Lester Holt
#83. This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
(Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate ... )
Terry Pratchett
#85. You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.
Howard Jacobson
#86. You can't have an inferiority complex and a superiority complex. Just pick one.
Anna Breslaw
#87. That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.
M.I.A.
#88. There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.
Dawn Olivieri
#89. You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#90. You can have anything in life, but you can't have everything!
Susan Jeffers
#91. I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.
Jerry Della Femina
#92. I get it. You'd rather have him, broken, than me whole. If that didn't clarify my chances with you, nothing would. But you can't have what you want either, Deuce. I can't be your friend, feeling like this. Give me some time, and then ... Maybe. No promises.
Ann Aguirre
#93. I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.
Leo Burnett
#94. You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.
Sonia Sanchez
#95. You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
Howard Rheingold
#96. To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper.
Isaac Mizrahi
#97. I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare
Tori Amos
#98. You can't have a great life unless you move two things: your body AND your mind. Keep them both exercised by taking them places they've never before been.
Toni Sorenson
#99. Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
Roald Dahl
#100. One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I'll do it alone in my apartment. You can't have a bad day after that.
Allison Williams
