Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You want to be confident when you work out because it takes a lot to make you work out. So many women really enjoy it, but it's a hard thing and you have to make yourself do it most of the time. I think you want to feel that you look good to make you want to work out a little bit more.”
“You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.”
“You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.”
“You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.”
Source: I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist
“You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it is to understand its unreality.”
“You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.”
Source: Crowned by Fire
“You want to be friends? he'd asked her. And her life had changed.”
Source: The Bollywood Bride
“You want to be gentle with the people you're working with if you know them.”
“You want to be greedy when others are fearful.”
“You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.”
“You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.”
“You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.”
“You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.”
“You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.”
“You want to be interesting? Be interested.”
Source: Actors Anonymous
“You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.”
“You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.”
Source: This Matter of Culture
“You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful.”
Source: Half a War
“You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?”
“You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it'll carry over into January.”
“You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“You want to be recognized for being popular but you also want to be recognized for being great.”
“You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.”
“You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment.”
“You want to be the first guy I fuck up, get in line.”
Source: City of Gods and Monsters
“You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'”
“You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.”
“You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.”
“You want to be the one that people piclk up the paper in the morning to see what you say.”
“You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.”
“You want to be the tallest tree in the forest and let all the trees see you easily; but remember that lightnings will easily see you as well!”
“You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.”
“You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.”
“You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me”
“You want to become a better person?
Just give thanks.
Give thanks for all of it.”
“You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David that you are sculpting is you. And you do it with your thoughts.”
Source: The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems
“You want to become more open-minded, challenge your ideas without being offended. Don’t let your ego ruin your learning experience.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“You want to become wise in one lesson:
First become a real human being.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.”
“You want to belong - connect. You want to win - fight. You want to die - sleep. You want to fly, learn to cry.”
“You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you're a human being. That they can feel your heartbeat and you can feel theirs. And that together you will live - you will live together.”
“You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.”
Source: Ashes
“You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to happen. Like it, don't like it - it's not going to be very pleasant.”
“You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.”
“You want to change? Lose the bitch. Be nicer to people. Stop telling them to "bite you" and threatening to kick them until they're dead.”
“You want to change the history of the future, give us a chance for a life worth living, without oppression? There's only one way. You know it, but you can't make yourself face it.”
Source: Walkaway
“You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.”