“You can't have everything… where would you put it?”

— Steven Wright

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American actor and author 1955

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)

“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.”

Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”

Stephen Chbosky (1970) American writer

“Where there is love, there is courage
Where there is courage, there is peace
Where there is peace, there is God
And when you have God, you have everything.”

Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace

Variant: Where there is love there is courage,
where there is courage there is peace,
where there is peace there is God.
And when you have God, you have everything.
Source: A Fatal Grace

“You can't rearrange freshly fallen snow, you can't fix snow so it looks untouched. You can rework earth, and sand and even grass if you try hard enough. Water takes care of itself, because it swallows everything and flows back together once it's done swallowing. And air is always in place because you can't see it. Everything but snow would have kept quiet.”

Herta Müller book The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 11

“In order to be the go-to guy, you must have everything right. You have to be on point with your routes and catch the ball no matter where the quarterback puts it. You just have to have confidence. I'm rolling, and I want to go out and have fun.”

Ted Ginn, Jr. (1985) American football wide receiver, kick returner

[Carlton, Chuck, Ohio State's Ginn ready to be go-to guy, Dallas Morning News, 2006-09-08, 2007-01-23]

“If there is no possibility or, to put it in plain terms, if there is no money… What can you do? You can't go to a store, you can't buy anything, either a cannon, or a missile, or a medicine. For this reason the economy is at the basis of everything. In the beginning it was Karl Marx and then Freud and others…”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

During a meeting with representatives of the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, May 13. 2006 <br class="br"> http://web.archive.org/web/20060614140558/http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/05/13/1557_type82915type82917type84779_105660.shtml <br class="br">2006- 2010

“Our egos are always trying to find happiness where [it] can't be found. One can't find true, lasting happiness outside of themselves. Whatever happiness you find outside of yourself, can be taken away. And in time, it will be taken away, because the nature of everything that exists, everything you can observe, everything that is around you, is that it is impermanent.”

Adyashanti (1962) Spiritual teacher

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

“To Stay Focused in Life:

You can't know everyone
You can't do everything
You can't go everywhere

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“You can't have everything… where would you put it?”

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