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“You think she is pretty?' Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined this sort of thing. 'Yes, and you do too.' 'I hadn't noticed, really.' 'Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“You think she's gonna stick around after the jock glory wears off? When y'all go to college? You think she's worth your future? Your team's future? My future?'
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“You think she’s pretty?”
“Well, sure, because she is.”
“Not to me she ain’t. Truly pretty’s more than looks. She’s got a hard, cold edge can’t never be pretty. A piece of work, that one.”
Source: The City
“You think she’s ‘The One” for him?”…
Remy shrugged. “Maybe, but if not, there’s nothing wrong with her being ‘TheOneforRightNow’.”
Source: Wolf Unleashed
“You think she survived because she was lucky? No. She survived because something in her refused to die. I have watched kingdoms burn and men beg for mercy, but the woman who has been betrayed, abandoned, underestimated, and still stands? She is more terrifying than any god. Persephone did not rise because the world was kind to her. She rose because it wasn’t — and she decided it would not swallow her whole. If you are still breathing after what tried to break you, understand this: you are not fragile. You are restrained power. And restrained power is far more dangerous than chaos.”
“You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!”
“You think she’ll be able to talk sense into him?” she asked. “His sister?” "If he listens to anyone, it would be her.” “That’s sweet,” said Maia. “That he loves his sister like that.” “Yeah,” Simon said. “It’s precious”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“You think silence means something. Sometimes, there's just nothing to say.”
Source: The Summer Son
“You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.”
“You think soccer is just a game? Well then, you’ve never played it. -Golden”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“You think some are bad or evil or whatnot, but somewhere along the way they were someone's baby, suckling the teat like anybody. Then something puts a volt in 'em and they ain't the same no more.”
“You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.”
“You think, taxing the rich will magically fix everything, it won't - the money would still have to go through hungry politicians. Until we introduce proper training, testing and licencing in politics, like in medicine, to winnow out the incompetent candidates, nothing will change.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.”
“You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?”
“You think that because I want to do what’s right, because I want to make things better, I’m weak,” Claire said. “Or that I’m stupid. But I’m not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.”
Source: Bite Club
“You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?”
“You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle.”
“You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.”
“You think that God positioned you here so you can just have it all to yourself? God blesses you to become a blessing. That's the deal.”
“You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.”
“You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection
“You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of you when you look at a painting. You think that you are getting close to art voluntarily, enticed by its beauty, that this intimacy is taking place in an atmosphere of freedom and that delight is being born in you spontaneously, lured by the divine rod of Beauty. In truth, a hand has grabbed you by the scruff of the neck, led you to this painting and has thrown you to your knees. A will mightier than your own told you to attempt to experience the appropriate emotions. Whose hand and whose will? That hand is not the hand of a single man, the will is collective, born in an interhuman dimension, quite alien to you. So you do not admire at all, you merely try to admire.”
Source: Diary
“You think that if we accumulate so much wealth, we will be happy, trust me wealth will not make you happy but truthfulness and righteousness will. Therefore in your life give importance to probity, not wealth.”
“You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.”
“You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.”
“You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.”
“You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.”
“You think that just because you left, it would change how I feel? Well, guess what? You're wrong. I can't help how I feel. I'm still in-”
“You think that no one will be able to love you on a deep level because you haven’t even managed to love yourself on said deep level, and you have a fear of letting go of the reins in your life, because you don’t trust others to guide you.”
Source: The Problem with Players
“You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.”
“You think that sense of humor goes as far as our ideology. I think that ultimately, we have we have very interesting reactions on our show. People are constantly saying, "I love your-your show is so funny, until you made a joke about global warming, which is a serious issue, and I can't believe you did that. And I am never watching your show again."”
“You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.”
“You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as not to understand what is going on in Washington, D.C.”
“You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'”
“You think that the mental anguish you are experiencing is a permanent condition, but for the vast majority of people it is only a temporary state.
(But what if I’m special? What if I’m in the minority?)”
Source: Dept. of Speculation
“You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.”
“You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.”
Source: White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006
“You think that there’s not a place in this world that you can have an impact. If you focus your mind, regardless of how ineffective you might think you are, or how powerless you might actually be, with enough focus you can make an impact.”
Source: sciVive
“You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.”
“You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.”
Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic
“You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.”
Source: The feast of love
“You think that when there's somethin' that's got you snakebit you and just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you.
It's waitin' for you. It always will be.”
Source: The Passenger
“You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.”
Source: The Passenger
“You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.”
“You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.”
“You think that you can hide; you think you can lay low?
I'll roll up on your ass like Hawaii 5-0!”
“You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.”
“You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.”