A Quotes
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“Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.”
Source: Let Me In
“Are you on drugs?" "No." "Maybe you should be.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection
“Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?”
“Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.”
Source: Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life
“Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?”
“Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”
“Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?”
“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“Are you open for this possibility of the energy source of breathing to go through you or are you collapsing? Are you open to this coming and going of air and the possibility-wea ther we sit, or stand, or lie-to allow this exchange of air through us?”
“Are you open-minded? If not, leave the door open to it.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Are you operating a crane or a wrecking ball? Put all of your energy into building your own house rather than wasting your energy tearing down others'.”
Source: The Petit Lenormand Oracle: A Comprehensive Manual For the 21st Century Card Reader
“Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?”
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“Are you out of your collective minds? I swear I can’t leave you two alone for three seconds that you don’t go off and hurt yourselves. I expect stupid out of you, but you know better.” – Caleb “I tried to tell him that. He won’t listen to me. Tag. You’re it.” – Nekoda”
“Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee.”
“Who’s Bruce Lee?”
“Who’s Bruce Lee?” Kenji asks, horrified. “Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore.”
“Why? Was he a friend of yours?”
“You know what,” he says, “just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.”
Source: Ignite Me
“Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Are you outside or inside the work? You don't really know.”
“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
“Are you passionate enough about a specific topic to become a subject matter expert, or entrepreneur in a particular field?”
“Are you past pity?
If you have consciousness now,
if I something I can call
"you" has something
like "consciousness," I doubt
you remember the last days.
I play them over and over:
I lift your wasted body
onto the commode, your arms
looped around my neck, aiming
your bony bottom so that
it will not bruise on a rail.
Faintly you repeat,
"Momma, Momma.”
“are, you, people,
prepared to defend
a broken sword who's challenging
your thoughts
to a gentle, unequal
fight?”
Source: The Seasons' Journey: A serendipitous rock opera.
“Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?”
“Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?”
“Are you planning on kissing me behind a haystack or something?"
"Oh, I plan on a lot worse, Maggie.”
Source: My Magnolia Summer
“Are you planning on traveling with no clothes or anything?”
The grin he gave her was a tiny bit wicked…”
Source: Hunting Danger
“Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour. “No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!”
“Are you planning to give Anne a Bible for Hanukkah?" Margot asked, somewhat perturbed.
"Yes...Well, maybe St. Nicholas Day would be a better occasion," Father replied.
Jesus and Hanukkah don't exactly go together.”
Source: Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World’s Most Famous Diary
“Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.
'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.
'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.”
Source: Dawn of Wonder
“Are you planning to stay?"
He looked down at her. "That," he stated, his voice very low, "depends largely on you."
Patience looked into his grey eyes- and froze. Every muscle was paralyzed, all the way to her toes. The idea that he was amusing himself, without any real intent, died- slain by the look in his eyes.
The intent in his eyes.
It could've have been clearer had he put it into words.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“Are you planning to take any more measurements? Usually when a woman spends that much time staring at my ass, I buy her a few drinks and invite her to my hotel room to get naked."
Mortified, I stood and entered his measurements into the online form. "It would take more than a few drinks to get me naked in your hotel room."
His smile broadened. Seriously, nothing seemed to faze this guy. He could take whatever I threw at him and gave it right back. "How many?"
"You wouldn't be able to keep up." I'd been blessed with a fast metabolism and a high alcohol tolerance. Not one of my brothers could outlast me when it came to drinking games.
"You complicate my life when you say things like that," he said. "I'd appreciate it if you could be less interesting.”
Source: To Have and to Heist
“Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Are you possessed with a devil,' he pursued, savagely, 'to talk in that manner to me when you are dying? Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Are you prepared for the first wound?”
“Are you prepared for what's next?”
“Are you prepared?" she asked when the other Valkyries had their passengers in place.
"Sure," Matt said. "But we could use a soundtrack this time. Maybe a little Wagner. Da-da-da DUM dum."
Hildar looked back at hiim blankly.
"Wagner? Ride of the Valkyries? Da-da-da...Er, never mind."
"Oh!" Baldwin said. "I know that one!"
"Don't feed the geek," Fen muttered.
"Hey," Matt said. "I'm not a-"
"Oh, yeah, you are, Thorsen. You really are," Fen said in a voice that might have been teasing.”
Source: Odin's Ravens
“Are you prepared then, to shoot a human being?" he asked, trying not to let Jenny sense his own internal unease. "It's not the same as shooting a duck or gazelle."
Jenny's violet eyes met his straight on. "If that human being was about to harm any one of us, I'd feel worse about shooting the duck. It, at least, would have done nothing to deserve a bullet.”
Source: The Buried Pyramid
“Are you prepared to follow the Lamb whithersoever? The Lord does as He chooses. He dispenses miracles as He chooses for His own glorious purposes. He doesn't always give us what we asked for. He doesn't always give that healing and even when He does we still become sick and die eventually. Do we trust in His sovereign choices or trust only in getting what we want? Will we fix our eyes on the storm in this fading world or on the Christ of heaven?”
“Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head?”
“Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.”
Source: Mockingjay
“Are you pro- or anti-macassar?”
“Are you proud of yourself, Katherine?"
She studied her nails. "Quite.”
“Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Are you psychoanalyzing me?" Henry asks. "I don't think royal guests are allowed to do that.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Are you pushing for a reason?' Tairn asks.
'Can you give me one not to?'
'He cares for you. That's already hard enough for him.'
I scoff. 'He cares about keeping me alive. There's a difference.'
'Not for him there isn't.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Are you putting your best foot forward? If so, do not stress or worry—you can only do your best. If not, what can you improve on today?”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“Are you quite finished?" Henry says, sounding strangled. "Can you perhaps stop putting your sodding life in danger now?"
"Aw, you do care," Alex says. "I'm learning all your hidden depths today, sweetheart."
Henry exhales and slumps off him. "I can't believe even mortal peril will not prevent you from being the way you are.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?”
Source: A Discipline of Programming
“Are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores?”
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Are you reading books and learning something new each day? Tiny battles like these are the ones that will define your future self.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.”
Source: At Home in Mitford
“Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something. "Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name.”