Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.”
Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography
“You were out binge-drinking bad self-esteem. I slip my poetry in your cup and watch you make love to your self-image, satisfying inner pleas.”
“You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it. And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires 'cause anybody only saw us at night.”
“You were overwhelmed by my desire? What planet are you from? (Geary to Arik) Moronia. Every full moon they teleport the Morons to earth and let them loose. Consider this your first encounter. (Solin)”
“You were paradise and I wanted a vacation.”
“You were patient all this time. I had to find myself first; I had to remember who I was and become the person I was meant to be. You have been there for me patiently while I searched for you, even when I didn't know I was looking for you, you were there.”
Source: Fearless Magic
“You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“You were perfect – perfect for me – and I love you”
“You were perfect.” Cam dipped his mouth to mine. “Only because I was with you.”
“You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.”
“You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.”
Source: The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
“You were placed there by God for a reason, which is to possess the land for the glory of the KING!”
“You were planned, Noah. Engineered.
For what?
To be the hero. To slay the dragon. But you fell in love with it instead.”
Source: The Retribution of Mara Dyer
“You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”
“You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.”
“You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.”
“You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.”
“You were put here to protect us.
But who protects us from you?”
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.”
Source: If We Were Villains
“You were required — this was essential, a matter of survival — to know your limits, both physical and emotional. But how could you know your limits unless you tested them? And if you failed the test? You were also required to stay calm if things went wrong. Panic was the first step, everybody said, to drowning.”
Source: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“You were right about the stars, each one is a setting sun.”
“You were right about your Bela, Rand," Moiraine said from where she stood by the mare. "She has a good heart, and as much stubbornness as the rest of you Two Rivers folk. Strange as it seems, she may be the least weary of all.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.”
Source: Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“You were right, Barry...Every second was a gift.”
Source: DC Universe: Rebirth (2016) #1
“You were right. Food is communal. Mom once told me that it was no accident that Jesus's first miracle was at a wedding. It was a sign that he was the Master of the Feast---and all celebrations involve a feast. Some of the best, most thankful moments of our lives involve food----almost all, really."
I tapped Emma, resting on Jane's lap. "You see it in Austen. She only mentions food as a means to bring characters together, reveal aspects of their nature and their moral fiber. Hemingway does the same, though he skews more towards the drinks. Nevertheless, it's never about the food----it's about what the food becomes, in the hands of the giver and the recipient.”
Source: Lizzy and Jane
“You were right,' Lucien declared at last. 'That girl I knew did die Under the Mountain.'
I wasn't sure if it was an insult. But I nodded all the same. 'At least we can agree on that.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“You were right- people want to believe in magic, because things seem terrible, magic and miracles give them hope. They want to believe something is working in their favor behind the scenes. Something good... I want you to have something miraculous to hold on to when everything seems awful.”
Source: Let's Talk About Love
“You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story.
Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake of love. I'll
bet you a hundred to one a woman wrote that junky romantic trash!"
Just a minute ago I'd despised that author for bringing about such a
miserable ending, then there I went, rushing to the defense. "T. M.
Ellis could very well have been a man! Though I doubt any woman writer
in the nineteenth century had much chance of being published, unless
she used her initials, or a man's name. And why is it all men think
everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly
drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding
the perfect love? And it seems to me, that Raymond was far more
mushy-minded than Lily!”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“You were right. The roses were special." I smiled a little. "You finally noticed." "They never died.”
Source: Six Scorched Roses
“You were right there, right in front of me, the whole time. You're the grace in my life, [...].”
Source: Falling Off the Face of the Earth
“You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his dream; I would like to live till dawn, but I know I have less than three hours left. It will be night, but no matter. Dying is simple. It does not take daylight. So be it: I will die by starlight”
“You were right, you know,” Ty whispered.
“About what?”
Ty swallowed hard. “I sold my soul a long time ago.”
Ty gripped Zane’s shoulder and pressed him down,
laying him out again, then stretched out over Zane, his hand
dragging down Zane’s body to push at his boxers.
“Ty,” Zane gasped.
Ty kissed him. Zane trailed the tips of his fingers down
Ty’s arm, sliding over the tattoo and the scars and the muscles.
“Do you really believe that?” Zane asked.
“I know it. I will never be the man you think I am.”
Zane’s breaths came harder. “We’ve both been trying so
hard to be worthy of each other.”
Source: Touch & Geaux
“You were right, Hale. It was a bad job. It was a bad call. You were right to leave." "Kat..." Hale tried to reach for her, but even in the sand, Kat was quick and sure on her feet, and she moved nimbly away, leaving Hale with nothing but a fistful of salty air. "Thanks for coming back and helping me find her and all, but..." She looked at Gabrielle, who stood leaning against Simon, still bruised and almost broken. " I think I've got to take it from here.".... She was sure right up until the point when Hale said, "No.”
Source: Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals
“You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.”
“You were right,” she said. “You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.”
Source: Carpe Corpus: The Morganville Vampires
“You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)”
Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“You were rightly destined for our family, Catherine. Almost by instinct you seem to have stumbled on the old tradition by which the châtelaines of Montsalvy would go to Puy, in times of war and danger, to implore divine help and offer their most beautiful jewels to the Madonna. Go, my daughter, you think as a true Montsalvy would!”
Source: Catherine and Arnaud
“You were running through me like water
Now the feeling's leaving me dry
These days we couldn't be farther
So how's it feel to be on the other side?
When it was good, we were on fire
Now I'm breathing ashes and dust
I always wanna get higher
I never know when enough is enough
We used to be close, but people can go
From people you know to people you don't
And what hurts the most is people can go
From people you know to people you don't”
“You were rushing to lick honey off a razor’s edge.”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“You were sad and hurt. Maybe your heart was broken, but you weren't broken”
Source: Big Little Lies
“You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.”
“You were saved by Christ to be a blessing to others and not to be a beggar. You are too loaded to fail. As such, face your fear head on and begin to shine.”
“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.”
“You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.”
“You were scared they were going to laugh at you, right? So let them! People who discourage others will never find their own happiness!”
Source: Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
“You were seen, you were heard and you matter.”
“You were sent here to die. You were the one that was not needed, was not wanted, and they sent you here because they knew you would never come back.”
Source: Cruel Beauty
“You were sent to serve, and serve you shall, in the Palace of the Sultan. And have no doubt, you will treasured by your new Masters. Though the Sultan has many slaves from his own land, you captive Princes and Princesses are a special delicacy of sorts, and a great curiosity.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“You were shaped to seek what cannot satisfy. Equanimity remembers what was never missing.”
Source: The Tao of Equanimity