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“You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.”
“You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.”
“You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.”
“You're advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water.”
“You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.”
“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“You're afraid of your own anger.”
Source: Graceling
“You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.”
“You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.”
“You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.”
“You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.”
“You're alive because of love. You're made of love.”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
“You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“You're alive!" Percy said to the others. "The giants said you were captured. What happened?" Leo shrugged. "Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez. You'd be amazed what you can do with an Archimedes sphere, a girl who can sense stuff underground, and a weasel." "I was the weasel," Frank said glumly.”
“You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than anything else in the world. I remember a little of waht being alive was like, and if I could touch that again, even for a day, it would be worth anything in the world. Even dying again, forever. All the centuries I've known and all the marvels I've seen don't compare to being alive." ~from Evernight, by”
“You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.”
“You're alive, you might as well be glad.”
“You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.”
“You're all beautiful. And you shouldn't let anyone tell you otherwise.”
“You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.”
“You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be. You're all love, pretending not to be. You're all one, pretending not to be. You're all Gurus, pretending not to be. You're all God, pretending not to be. When you're ready to stop pretending, then you're ready to just be the real you. That's your home.”
“You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“You're all he ever wants.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.”
Source: Endless Love
“You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.”
“You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.”
“You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!”
Source: World of wonders
“You're all playin' for second place.”
“You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.”
Source: The Attack
“You're all welcome in California.”
“You're all you've got.”
“You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.”
“You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'”
“You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.”
“You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.”
“You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.”
“You're already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you're trading your time for money. Frankly, it's just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can't get more time.”
Source: MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
“You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“You're already using your imagination because you're watching fiction and then you're trying to believe that this girl who weighs 100 lbs, soaking wet, could actually beat up a guy. Which works in a lot of situations but in a lot of situations you look at it and you're like, "Come on. Could you please get someone in there who actually has biceps and not just because they don't eat?"”
“You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.”
“You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.”
“You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.”
“You're always a child of your time,
and you cannot step out of that.”
“You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.”
“You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.”
“You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.”
“You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.”