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“You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.”
“You want to honor the people who fought for our FREEDOM?
Refuse to give up YOUR FREEDOM.”
“You want to invent new ideas, not rules”
“You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.”
“You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.”
“You want to keep looking?" I asked. "Yeah, maybe." "I'll leave you to it, then." I started for the door. "No." He said it quickly, and reached for my arm, but stopped before he touched me. "I mean, if you're tired, sure, but you don't have to." Derek doesn't want her to leave ♥”
“You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.”
“You want to kill me, and I do not care, for no matter how you kill me, it will not make a difference, because I never wanted to live in the first place. Kill me and tell them that I fought. I will be remembered a fighter, and you will go down a hero. Kill me and be left with the memory, that you killed someone who wanted to die. Only your saints will know your sins, but they do not care, for theirs outweigh your own.”
“You want to kill me??
- So I guess that truth hurts, but why it hurts?
Lie doesn't but truth does??
How does it happen??
So you go... you say "Well, well pretty nice made knife..." and you are looking it by moving it like rotate and such type of stuff and one moment you want to kill me. But why??
Is it because I just "I lived" or it was because of "Listen" or it was because of "The Walk"??
or what's the answer?”
“You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane”
Source: Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla
“You want to kill your morals? Believe that they can be compromised and then act on that belief. The minute that you do, you will have achieved your goal.”
“You want to kiss him. So kiss him. Why haven't you?”
Source: 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You
“You want to know a little about a lot.”
“You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.”
“You want to know about a certain period and what happened?-You go into this building and all of a sudden you are transported! You're not just shown pictures, not even 3-D pictures, not even movies, but suddenly you are transported live by a time machine to that very time, that very age and you see it happen, you watch it happen, you hear it happen, you feel it happen! Think of it! Not only the movies but the 'feelies'! You are there!”
“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.”
Source: The Bone People: A Novel
“You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.”
“You want to know as much information as possible because it helps you make more informed decisions, but that's not always possible. There are a lot of different factors surrounding it.”
“You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.”
“You want to know how I see you?' Forster's voice turned husky. Detta's mouth was swollen from grazing his stubble and he couldn't stop looking at it, at her. 'When we are together, all I can think of is you, and when sleep comes, I dream of you.' Detta had stilled yet he continued, unable to stop. 'And when we're apart, I ache for you. Missing you is a physical pain that I cannot rid myself of and nor would I ever choose to because there is no sweeter pain than that which reminds me of you. You are my everything.”
Source: Upon a Frosted Star
“You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.”
“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”
“You want to know how the story really ends? You want to know the part of the tale that everyone forgets?'
...
'I told you that I killed her, but I didn't say how.' A dangerous intensity slipped in to Jacks' voice. 'I didn't tell you that I ran away, that I tried to leave her so I wouldn't hurt her. I didn't know if I really loved her, or if my feelings were all from the curse, because it wouldn't let me stop thinking about her. But she had more faith in me that I did. She chased after me. She was convinced I really loved her and that I could fight the curse. And I did. I never laid a hand on her. I overcame the Archer's curse. But it didn't matter, because as soon as I kissed her, she died.' Jack's mouth twisted bitterly. 'Since then, every girl I've kissed has died, except for one. And you are not that girl.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“You want to know how to be like indians? Live close to the earth. Get rid of some of your things. Help each other. Talk to the creator. Be quiet more. Listen to the earth instead of building things on it all the time.”
Source: Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
“You want to know how to love me?
Love my children.
You want to be good to me?
Be good to my children.”
Source: All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”
“You want to know how to preserve democracy?
WE must listen and understand each other, respect and have empathy for one another.”
“You want to know how to rely on others right? That's 'cause I can't do everything on my own."
"B-but... if you say that then it's like you're saying that you're weak! I can't do that."
"What... is this?"
"G- green tea?"
"Exactly. But it's coffee inside."
"What?! What's that supposed to-"
"No matter how much you insist that this is green tea... to me, the inside is still coffee. Just changing the label doesn't mean that what's inside changes."
"Well, duh."
"So... when you can't do something and you refuse to admit it... then it's the same as faking and insisting that this is green tea... when the inside is coffee. You said that you understood. You knew that you can't do much on your own and that you need to rely on others. But you can't do it. That's because you're scared of being rejected by others. I don't know what you think about how the others around you judge you. But the fact that you're scared out of your wits... has been blatantly obvious to everyone.”
Source: Wind Breaker 7
“You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.”
“You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.”
“You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.”
“You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.”
“You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.”
“You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.”
“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.”
Source: Deadeye Dick
“You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.”
Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“You want to know the coolest part?" Mom chimed in. "There isn't assigned seating at the dinning room, and they have tables for four. That means the three of us can sit down and if we pile the extra chair with our gloves and hats, nobody can sit with us!"
Dad and I looked a each other, like, Is she joking?
"And penguins," Mom quickly added. "I'm wildly excited about all those penguins.”
Source: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
“You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.”
“You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.”
Source: Through the Dark
“You want to know the secret of my success? Let me tell you about eugenics.”
“You want to know the secret to raising good kids?”
“What’s that? asked Thomas.
“High expectations.”
Thomas laughed. “Alright, well what’s the secret to a happy marriage?”
Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. “… Low expectations.”
Source: The Life and Death of the Ericsons
“You want to know the secret to ruining your life? It's never one big black-and-white decision. It's dozen's of little ones that you make every single day. It's excuses, in my case. Excuses are poison”
Source: No Exit
“You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.”
“You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.”
“You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.”
“You want to know what happened? YOU happened Rush. That's what happened.”
Source: The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far
“You want to know what I believe? I believe in fate, but I also believe in free will. Meaning, there's a path, but we're free to veer away from it. The only problem is that there's no way to know whose path we're following on any given moment. Our own? Our fate's? Other people are on their on paths, too. What happens when we intersect? What happens when someone else wipes our path clean, and we're left with no road to follow? Is that fate? Is that when free will kicks in? Is the path there, but invisible?
Who the hell knows?”
Source: Letters to the Lost
“You want to know what I did to make him raise me up?' I ask, leaning toward her, close enough that she can feel the warmth of my breath. 'I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.'
'Liar,' she hisses.
'If you're such good friends,' I say, repeating her own words back to her with malicious satisfaction, 'why don't you ask him?”
Source: The Wicked King
“You want to know what I'm afraid of? All right, I'll tell you. I'm afraid of men - yes, I'm very much afraid of men. And I'm even more afraid of women. And I'm very much afraid of the whole bloody human race. Afraid of them? Of course I'm afraid of them. Who wouldn't be afraid of a pack of damned hyenas? [...] And when I say afraid - that's just a word I use. What I really mean is that I hate them. I hate their voices, I hate their eyes, I hate the way they laugh. I hate the whole bloody business. It's cruel, it's idiotic, it's unspeakably horrible. I never had the guts to kill myself or I'd have got out of it long ago.”
Source: Good Morning, Midnight