Y Quotes
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“You've got to shake your fists at lightning now. You've got to roar like forest fire.”
“You've got to share what you've got to get back what you've lost”
“You've got to step up, Emme. They need to hear your voice, hear you. You're better than being stuck in the background.”
Source: Take a Bow
“You’ve got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You’re only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.”
Source: The Association
“You've got to take your chances in life, don't ignore the opportunities when the crop up as you don't get that many, every little helps, the small victories are important because that's your lot.”
Source: The Football Factory
“You’ve got to trust yourself. Be gentle with yourself. And listen to yourself.
You’re the only person who can get you through this now.
You’re the only one who can survive your story, the only one who can write your future.
All you’ve got to do, when you’re ready, is stand up,
{and begin again.}”
Source: Heaven Has No Regrets
“You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“You’ve got to use the simplest trick in the conflict resolution book : finding common ground. A better way to think about this is, “What do these disparate philosophies need from each other?”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“You’ve got to wake up every day knowing the values and wealth of the 24hours you are blessed with”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“You've got to walk away from people, things and places that dishonour you. Even if the consequences are loneliness or being ostracised, you've got to choose yourself. Nothing is worth you losing yourself over.”
“You've got to work. It's about structure. It's about discipline. It's all these deadly things that your school teacher told you you needed... You need it.
Jo speaking to Charlie Rose re: writing”
“You’ve got two magnets in your mind. Anxiety and worry push money away, while happiness and comfort draw it toward you.”
Source: The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich
“You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.”
Source: The Unspoken Rules of Love What Women Don't Know and Men Don't Tell You
“You’ve got your answer then, haven’t you?'
Lydia nods. She has. She knew it all along. But sometimes it takes an artificially intelligent simulation of a long dead Beatle to put things in perspective.”
Source: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
“You've got your CEOs pulling four hundred or five hundred times what the American man does. Is there any man worth four hundred or five hundred other men? I've never met one. Have you?" -David Efaw in Wildland”
Source: Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
“You've got your lights turned so they can see you. The very best of what you've got to offer.”
“You've got your mama's smile. Never really noticed before.”
Source: Genesis Begins Again
“You’ve gotta change your inlook before you can change your outlook.”
“You've gotta dance like nobody's watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like nobody's listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.”
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
“You've gotta hit as hard as life.
It isn't about how hard you hit,
It's about how hard you can get
hit and keep moving forward.
How much can you take and keep
moving forward? That's how
winning is done.”
“You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“You've gotta stop calling each sl*ts and wh*r*s. That just makes it more okay for GUYS to call you sl*ts and wh*r*s.”
“You’ve gotten cheeky, Becca.”
“Me? Never. Can I let him in, please? He’s giving me a headache. He doesn’t seem to understand he can’t enter your office whenever he wants.”
Jared couldn’t help a smile. That sounded like Gabriel. “Didn’t you tell him I’m busy?”
“I did. And you know what he said? ‘But it’s me.’ As if the rules don’t apply to him.” She couldn’t quite keep the dislike from her voice.
Jared’s smile disappeared. “That’s enough, Rebecca. Let him in.” Jared hung up, his mood souring. He knew Rebecca meant well. She was just a little overprotective of him and she had never liked Gabriel. To be fair, Gabe wasn’t sunshine and rainbows: he could be a bit of a jerk around people he didn’t care about—which was most people—but he was fiercely loyal to those few he did care for.”
Source: Just a Bit Unhealthy
“You've gotten to play big fish in this little pond, but you don't' know what it is to be a bottom feeder in a place like this.”
Source: Inheritance
“You’ve grown so tall, Mageling, in these four years,” she said, as if she hadn’t really looked at him for a while. “And handsome. Are you taller than your father was?”
“So I’m told. It’s hard for me to remember now.” That was a lie. He remembered—exactly—the measure of his father’s arm around his shoulders, the distance between them when he leaned down to speak at Ash’s level, even the scent of him—leather and sweat and fresh mountain air.”
Source: Flamecaster
“You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...alone. On their own. Undecided. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.”
Source: Fall of Night
“You’ve had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.”
Source: The Damned Utd
“You've had generations of ape scholars selling the cannibals of Europe as saviors of the world, now watch one Naskar and his Earth Soldiers bring down your entire industrial complex of conversion, cleansing, and holy cockery, without lifting a single weapon!”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“You've had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can't stand on your own legs?”
“You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled into a fetal position. Regardless of how difficult this new ordeal may be, as with the others, this too will be overcome. It will make you stronger.”
Source: For the (soon) unemployed: You Against Them
“You've had more than your share of heartache, honey, but sometimes what looks like a gift is a gift.”
Source: The Masterpiece
“You’ve had quite a ride with the men in your life.”
“The worst of the lot.” I chuckled, feeling lighter. “The last five years of my life have been nothing but chaotic. I wasn’t sure I’d make it out this time. Seeing him look at me like that, even in chains, chilled me to the bone. It hunts my thoughts still, and I can’t shake him from my head.”
Source: Through Hell with you
“You’ve had un oeuf? Sorry, I don’t understand. Would you like to visit the vineyard with Linda tomorrow?’ asked Andre, who looked confused.
‘Yes, that will be great because I have had un oeuf!’ Jade replied, forcing a smile, but she still felt shaken. No-one took her seriously. Well, she would soon see about that!”
Source: Salsa
“You've heard about the knitter's handshake? Two hands go in for the grab-and-shake, but at the last minute, they veer to the closest sleeve or band and grab it instead while we ask, "Did you knit this?”
Source: The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting
“You've heard it said that what you see is what you get. But what I've discovered is that it's not what you see, but what you think you see, that determines what you get.”
“You’ve heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well, just change that to "F**k a man and you’ve made him happy for a day. Teach a man to f**k and you’ve made him happy for a lifetime.”
Source: Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
“You've honey on your tongue, ma fifille," Maman once said. "If you'd lived in earlier times, you could have been a troubadour."
"...There aren't any troubadours any more, are there, Maman?" Marie said. "And if there were, girls wouldn't be allowed to be one."
"Probably not," Maman agreed sadly.
"I'll be one anyway," I said with determination.
Maman smiled and gently pulled on my hair. "I'm sure you will, ma fifille, a clever girl like you. You can do whatever you like in this world if you just have courage enough.”
Source: Bitter Greens
“You've invaded my erotic dojo. For this your assholes will adorn my thunderous cock like jewelry!”
Source: Sex Criminals, Vol. 3: Three the Hard Way
“You've invaded my mind and I can't get you out of it," he accused with discernible disdain. She avoided looking at him and said, "Then you should forget." "Forget?" he thundered,"EVERYTHING reminds me of you!" She turned to confront him, slowing lifting her eyes to meet the disgust in his. "That's not my doing," she countered, "That's your doing and you are the only one who can control it.”
“You've just been thrown to the wolves, girl. You're alone. And you will know what it means.”
Source: The Smitten Sky: An Enemies to Lovers Dark Fantasy Romance
“You've just got to accept that your first love is your greatest, and everything else is going to be second-best. But second-best is better than nothing at all.”
Source: Die for Her
“You've kissed me, and if these things don't make us friends nothing ever will.”
Source: Dracula
“You've known for a long time that you want something different. It just took you a while to figure out what it was.”
Source: Field Notes on Love
“You’ve known him, what? A week? Don’t tell me you’re considering this.”
“Okay. I won’t tell you I’m considering this.”
Source: A Not So Fictional Fall
“You've learned to control your pain, but you've never let go of it. When you can do that, you'll be sensei in no time. Your journey is just beginning.”
Source: Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Vol. 1: Who is Oracle?
“You’ve lied to me. You’ve hid things from me. How dare you talk to me like we’re still friends, like we ever mattered to you at all?--Sydney Field”
Source: Royal Bond
“You’ve loved with intensity and passion, and have learned to hide your heartache, learned to press your handkerchief back into your pocket and pretend that you are okay.”
Source: A Corner of White
“You've maddened me for you...have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.”
Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince
“You’ve made that clear. But why do you assume I’ve done something wrong? Have I ever lied to you, or kept anything from you? I trusted you. You assume I’ve never been hurt and that trust comes easily to me. You’re too busy guarding your own heart to realize that maybe I’m not the arsehole people expect me to be.”
Source: Beautiful Stranger