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 make an impression. Being clever helps.”
“You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.”
“You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions - I know I do - is through recognizing experiences on screen, or in novels, or in paintings.”
“You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-”
Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future
“You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?”
Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead
“You want to make millions, look at this...” Neerav suddenly grabbed their attention and pointed to the TV. “You cannot earn
$10 million. Nobody earns millions. You can rob, you can steal, or you can make $10 million in an IPO, but never earn so much. So just forget all this saving and consulting bullshit. Just look at this.”
Source: A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
“You want to make music that reflects your ideals, but considering the isolating process of recording and the time and energy requirements of touring, there aren't a lot of opportunities to express those ideals anywhere but the music itself.”
“You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.”
“You want to make people relaxed.”
“You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.”
“You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.”
“You want to marry me?”
“No. I’m gonna marry you.”
Source: Rock Chick
“You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.”
Source: The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.
“You want to mix me with someone else's despair, and I hate despair! I want to be free, and freedom is freedom from other people!”
Source: Lanark
“You want to move into worlds you've never been in before. It would be like going to the same restaurant all the time or going to the same place for vacation all the time. Where is the adventure in that?”
“You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on.”
“You want to not have any problems.”
Source: Buddhism Plain and Simple
“You want to own your day, not let your day own you.”
Source: The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential
“You want to picture yourself being on top and doing amazing gymnastics.”
“You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.”
“You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.”
“You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.”
“You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.”
“You want to play in the big boys’ yard, you need to follow the rules.”
Source: Keep Her Safe
“You want to play innocent? That the kind of person who spends their lives projecting their voice into a lamb or lizard isn't into some kinky shit when the lights go out?”
Source: The Road to Vent Haven
“You want to play the game of life but wish that there should be no opposition, no obstacles, no challenges. How's that possible?”
“You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.”
“You want to play? Come find me angel boy.”
“You want to poof it or ride back with me?”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
“You want to pray to someone, pray to Bruce Willis in Armageddon.”
Source: The Last Policeman
“You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.”
“You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.”
“You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.”
“You want to prove you never stopped loving me?” She got up and stared down at me. “Start by trusting me with the truth.”
Source: Blue Moon
“You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is.”
“You want to provide for your family, of course, but you also want them to come along on the journey with you. I haven't achieved all I want to with my life, so I need to continue to push myself.”
“You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.”
“You want to purge what no longer serves you.”
“You want to purge whatever you can that no longer serves you - whether it’s social media, what shows you’re watching, what music you’re listening to or what conversations you’re overhearing.”
“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”
Source: Cheaters
“You want to put me on a dating site?" he asked. "You're a weird kind of girlfriend.”
“You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.”
“You want to put people together who will work well, and each movie kind of has its own personality in terms of how people are working or the temperature on set, and we want people who will fit in with that mix. It's one of the really important parts of it.”
“You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.”
Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life
“You want to reach people on a real level and have a fan base that understands you.”
“You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.”
“You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.”
“You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.”
“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
Source: Night Shift
“You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.”