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“You think what you see in poor countries is poverty? No. What you really see is very poor states of mind, poor values, poor awareness, poor compassion, poor empathy, poor moral and a poor ethic. Poverty, as in lack of money, is just a consequence of all those things.”
“You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?' ... 'Yes, but you hae it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.”
Source: The Sword of the Lictor
“You think when gym teachers were younger, they're thinking, "You know, I want to teach...but I don't want to read. How about kickball for 40 years?"”
“You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.”
“You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they've never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn't. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you're forced to rewrite them entirely. You can't walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it's all dead and you know it's going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute.-Emma”
“You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!”
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“You think you are a loser just because you haven’t yet won. When you start winning, you will realize that your insinuations were just a figment of your imagination.”
Source: Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
“You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.”
“You think you are alone until you find books about girls like you. Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“You think you are alone. Then you raise your eyes, and you are surrounded.”
Source: God: A Biography
“You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.”
“You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.”
“You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.”
“You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.”
“You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.”
“You think you can change a guy, that he’ll be different with you, that you’ll finally be the one to tame him… and before you know it, you’re alone in your underwear at nine o’clock on a Saturday night, crying to Adele songs, eating ice cream straight from the gallon, and wondering what the hell is the matter with you that you fell for such a goddamned man-child, after he explicitly warned you not to.”
Source: The Monday Girl
“You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.”
“You think you can fuck your way out of this one, Marcus?”
Source: Some Guys Need a Lot of Lovin'
“You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.”
“You think you can have everything. But you can't.”
Source: All for You
“You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?”
“You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.”
“You think you can’t survive without Livvy, but you can. We will go through it together.” Kit’s face was cold; he
realized he was crying. “I love you, Ty. I love you.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“You think you can unchoose resonance?”
“I’m willing to give it a shot,” I retort.
“You may say what you want, but you are wrong. You think there is nothing worse than resonating to me? I know what is worse. The silence in your chest when your mate is gone.” His words are rough with anger. “And you would do that to me a second time?”
Source: Barbarian's Mate
“You think you'd know what a killer sounds like”
Source: Good Girl, Bad Blood: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Book 2
“You think you'd know what a killer sounds like. That their lies would have a different texture, some barely perceptible shift. A voice that thickens, grows sharp and uneven as the truth slips beneath the jagged edges. You'd think that, wouldn't you?”
Source: Good Girl, Bad Blood
“You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?”
Source: Borrowed Love Poems
“You think you hate me now? If I do what you're asking, you'll want to murder me.' He paused, and his lips curved upward. 'Well, you'll want to murder me more than you already do. You don't have control of yourself right now.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.”
“You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.”
“You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.”
“You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works.”
“You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.”
“You think you know a place,” he says. “You think you’ve got it all figured out, but it’s like with camerawork. You just adjust your position, “Cameron and the other guys take their smoke breaks up here,” he explains.
The two of us sit down, and for a few minutes we just live here in this moment without a word between us.
Finally I break the silence. “How is it I’ve lived here all my life and I’m just now seeing this view of Clover City?”
A soft smile plays at Malik’s lips. “You think you know a place,” he says. “You think you’ve got it all figured out, but it’s like with camerawork. You just adjust your position, even slightly, and suddenly you’re telling a different story. Seeing a new world.”
“You think you know better than any government?
Don't you?
What does that mean?
I look at the life I've lived, the things I've done -- much of it in the "service" of my country. Look at the state of the world, bub. I figure we can't do any worse.”
Source: X-Treme X-Men Omnibus, Vol. 1
“You think you know death, but you don't, not until you've seen it, really seen it... And it gets under your skin and lives inside you.
You also think you know life, stand on the edge of things and what you go by but you're not living it, not really, you're just a tourist, a ghost, then you see it, really see it, it gets under your skin and lives inside you, and there's no escape, there's nothing to be done, and you know what? it's good, it's a good thing.
And that’s all I’ve got to say about it.”
“You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.”
“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.”
“You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.”
“You think you know snowmen.
You don’t" ❄️”
“You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.”
Source: The Shadow Catcher: A Novel
“You think you know someone until they change right before your very eyes.”
Source: In Other Words
“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
“You think you know the truth. You no longer want to hold it from public gaze, you reveal it to simple souls who can't manage it and you lead them into unbelief, then you are left with a mob of monsters you do not know what to do with”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that at each moment each one of us, man, woman, child, perhaps even the poor old horse turning the mill-wheel, knew what was just: all creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. "But we live in a world of laws," I said to my poor prisoner, "a world of the second-best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is to uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.”
“You think you know what’s right. That sacrificing yourself is going to keep the rest of us safe. But you’re a Bennett now, because a name is a name is a name. And I’m sorry for that. It’s a heavy burden but one that means you’ll never be alone again.”
Source: Brothersong