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 ride with me, let's ride.”
“You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.”
“You want to save more fish? Eat more broccoli.”
“You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.”
“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
Source: Pachinko
“You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.”
“You want to see God? Look closely and without blinking into the faces of the forgotten, the frightened, and the unforgiven. Bear witness. Get down on your knees with them, spend time in their presence, hear their stories however they are told. Otherwise it is far too easy to believe they deserve their hell.”
Source: Just Life
“You want to see if you can train the evil singing nursery ghost to...do what? Babysit evil children?”
Source: Lullaby
“You want to see me to the door, Katie?”
“What, going so soon. You don’t want the chair and ropes brought in, or the lamp to shine in his face?”
“You know you’re not funny at all,” she huffed. “Now, are you going to see me out?”
“No, not really. You know where it is.”
She stared at me, her eyes wide.
“Oh,” I exclaimed. “You want to ask me about Dex instead of questioning him. You should have said so and then I could have told you it’s none of your business, he’s only here to help with my car.”
Source: Pelvic Flaws
“You want to see my eagerness flooding my eyes,
(Moved) you wanted me to cry my heart out, and then, by the power of your presence again in my life, every granule of pain turns miraculously into a sparkling diamond of love.”
Source: It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase
“You want to see the country fall apart, you take out the truckers first.”
Source: Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology
“You want to see the joy in people, and you want to see the person that always dreamt of being a star, you know? You want to see people having a great time. So Mariah Carey is a huge fan of George Michael.”
“You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.”
“You want to see the treat vanish and the happy face to appear and when this happens, you feel great about yourself.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“You want to see women your own age in films.”
“You want to set a big enough goal so that in the process of achieving it, you become someone worth becoming. Advice from Jim Rohn”
Source: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dreams: Inspirational Stories, Powerful Principles and Practical Techniques to Help You Make Your Dreams Come True
“You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.”
“You want to shut me up with your illegal none disclosure agreement?”
“You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.”
Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974
“You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take - sometimes a few days, sometimes months - you piece the whole thing together.”
“You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.”
“You want to spend your day like an emperor and then sleep deeply like a labourer. That’s not possible in this world of dualities. Here definition of pleasure is relief from pain. Eternal bliss is found when you detach from both.”
“You want to spend your millions on a worthless cause? Try donating it to the Democrats.”
Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
“You want to stab me again, don't you?"
He didn't look at all ashamed. "Think of it as testing the limits of your new abilities."
I groaned. "I've created a monster."
"I don't think someone who recently crawled from the grave should be throwing around labels like 'monster,'" he said, making sarcastic little air-quotes fingers.
"It wasn't a grave," I sniffed. "It was a comfy four-poster.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“You want to stand out in the crowd, yet you fear noise.”
“You want to start over?" he murmured against her ear. His hot breath sent shivers to her toes.”
Source: Power Unleashed
“You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same.”
“You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar physical condition and weapons training. You never stop, you never hesitate, and you never show any mercy for the people that would slow you down.That is what the military says we should do, and if I ever meet anybody who listens to that particular set of commands, I may shoot them myself just to improve the gene pool. When you can help people stay alive, you help them. We're all we've got.”
“You want to stay here and sleep your life away? That's it?"
"If you knew what would make you happy, wouldn't you do it?" I asked her.
"See, you do want to be happy. Then why did you tell me that being happy is dumb?" she asked. "You said that to me more than once."
"Let me be dumb," I said, glugging the NyQuil. "You go be smart and tell me how great it is. I'll be here, hibernating."
Reva rolled her eyes.
"It's natural," I told her. "People used to hibernate all the time."
"People never hibernated. Where are you getting this?"
She could look really pathetic when she was outraged. She got up and stood there holding her stupid knockoff Kate Spade bag or whatever it was, her hair pulled back into a ponytail and crowned with a useless, plastic, tortoiseshell headband. She was always getting her hair blown out, her eyebrows waxed into thin, arched, parentheses, her fingernails painted various shades of pink and purple, as though all of this made her a wonderful person.
"It's not up for discussion, Reva. This is what I'm doing. If you can't accept it, then you don't have to.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.”
“You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.”
“You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!”
“You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.”
“You want to take all my money slow with success, so far you have taken 120$ and they aren't return back and you want more and more and more...”
“You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.”
“You want to take yourself seriously, and you want to make something that you hope will have resonance with the audience. You want to bring your perspective and what you consider your talent to that piece of work, and you move forward in that direction. Sometimes that's easy, and sometimes it's met with resistance because you're dealing with situations where, for everybody else, it's a piece of business.”
“You want to talk about doing damage to our elections and damaging our stature, to have it just thought and stated repeatedly that the strongman of Russia can pick an American presidential candidate and get him or her elected? Do you think if Hillary had won and the Republicans had tried this line that Putin chose her, do you think that would have gotten past a day in the Drive-By Media? They wouldn't have even taken the story. They'd laughed at it, sloughed it off, and you'd-a never heard about it.”
“You want to talk about the word faggot because it really offends you? Well you're a douchebag.”
“You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.”
“You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of any animal on the planet.' It took Isabel only a second to process this. 'No, they don't.' 'I know that's why I've never told anybody that before.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“You want to taste all these experiences. And the ego makes it possible. Don’t curse the ego. So many scriptures curse the ego self. Instead, regard your life as about choices, experiences and desire and that you are already liberated. Don’t be afraid of desire. It is why you’re here: to taste, live. It’s just an ‘agreement’ you all made when you took on an ego. You splintered off from the whole. ~ Kuan Yin”
Source: Kuan Yin Buddhism:: The Kuan Yin Parables, Visitations and Teachings
“You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.”
“You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.”
“You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.”
“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.”
Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing?”
“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
Source: Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays
“You want to test our apples?" Carter asked.
"I want to find out what makes them taste so special so that we can share that with other people, maybe lots of them." Grace saw Carter's perplexed expression. "You ever had a fruit-flavored soft drink?"
"Like an orange soda?"
"Exactly. Well, somebody found the perfect orange somewhere, studied it carefully, and then made a formula based on its special flavor so that anyone anywhere in the world could taste it."
"In a can of soda."
"Right."
"Very cool."
"Do you like peach ice cream?"
"Yes!"
"Well, a lot of the 'all-natural peach flavoring' that you taste in that ice cream is really Gamma-Aldehyde C-14, a molecule created by Nanjing Yuance Trade Company, which I'm sure is based on a perfect peach they found somewhere."
"So you're like a scientist-cook," Carter said excitedly.
"Something like that." Grace smiled.”
Source: The Orchard
“You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.”