you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs , auch: you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs

As the saying goes, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, is that it?

Wasn't he the guy who said 'You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs'?

"She has met some criticism, but you know you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."

It's akin to the "old college try" or the "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" school of diplomacy.

Yeah, and you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, but I don't want you or Sean to end up cracked.

Just accept the smoke and ashes, in the same way you accept that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" was Duranty's catchall phrase for the Soviet state's murderous excesses.

If a radio message has come through -' 'You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs,' Neufeld said indifferently.

But you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, you know; you can't have a victory that counts without a butcher's bill.

Occasionally pressed on the human costs of the Soviet experiment he did, however, evolve a dismissive dodge, canting "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."

He shrugged off the famine as "mostly bunk," and in any case, as he admonished the squeamish, "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."

Of course we're aware that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs and there will be disruption across the route while construction of the tram scheme is under way.

"I know you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs but we should have compensation as it's like we are being punished for something which we have nothing to do with."

'You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs' - if implementing Egan means that we have to tear down the traditional structures and demarcation lines within the industry, then we must.

So you had to see it as almost a eugenic, even a humanitarian measure as well as an unavoidable transitional phase, and in any case you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

But how sympathetic to most readers is a figure who constantly calls for the employment of terror against large segments of his population, and whose basic justification for this is that "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs"?