“There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.”
Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (11 October 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106145 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: We will not reflate... Past governments have tried that. Past governments have deliberately created inflation in the hope of reducing unemployment. It always finished up with worse inflation and worse unemployment. Mr President, You can't build a secure future on dishonest money. And there is a fundamental truth, from which no government can escape.
“There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.”
Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variant: You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
“You got a lot of money but you can't afford the freeway”
Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)
"Freeway" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQF5CXV9cos <br class="br">Song lyrics, @#%&*! Smilers (2008) <br class="br">Context: You know it<br>I know it<br>Why don't you<br>Just show it<br>You got a lot of money but you can't afford the freeway
“Without a past you can't have a future.”
Michael Ende book The Neverending Story
Source: The Neverending Story
“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”
Norman Borlaug (1914–2009) American biologist
From "Eat This!", an episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit!; Quoted in: Gary Beene (2011) The Seeds We Sow: Kindness that Fed a Hungry World. p. 9
“Unfortunately, buildings are not like drawings. You can't just erase them.”
Richard Roth, Jr. American architect
Source: As quoted in Meredith L. Clausen, "The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream" http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E6qRuyzOogIC&pg=PA275&lpg=PA275&dq=%22Unfortunately,+buildings+are+not+like+drawings.+You+can%27t+just+erase+them.%22&source=bl&ots=wkwiw7U92A&sig=4fGIk_ufWMT3wv_c6l6k8uaYMv0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HYlHVNHNJ4Lb7Aa86oHwCA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Unfortunately%2C%20buildings%20are%20not%20like%20drawings.%20You%20can%27t%20just%20erase%20them.%22&f=false, p.275