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“You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your confidence.”
“You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.”
“You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.”
“You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I think maybe I could add this here, add that there." But I find that I write just as well for the other characters as I do for myself. I think.”
“You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.”
“You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.”
Source: Holes
“You're revealing something about yourself in a more exaggerated, more fleshed-out way, and it awakens something in you that maybe you didn't know you had.”
“You're rich according to what you are, not according to what you have!”
“You're rich if you've had a meal today.”
Source: The Quotable Billy Graham
“You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can”
“You're right John! I can't see you! Your movies aren't in theaters long enough!”
“You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.”
“You're right to want to minimize your compulsive physical behavior in the workplace before it bothers your co-workers, but I hope very much you can also give yourself credit for the work you're already doing.”
“You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.”
Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel
“You're right, Halt,' she said, and he nodded acklowledgement of her backing down. 'Nice to hear someone else saying that for a change,' Will said cheerfully. 'Seems like I've said those words an awful lot in my time.' Halt turned a bleak gaze on him. 'And you've always been right.”
“You're right, he's a killer," you said. "A rooster with some serious issues.”
Source: Stolen
“You're right, super-realism is back in style.”
“You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time.”
“You're right. And so was my snake." Snake?" He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "When I carved this my thoughts were on you, love. Your life is like this snake's coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you'll end up back where you belong. With me.”
Source: Magic Study
“You're right. Everyone in this room with a pulse is starting to smell really good. Okay. Back in the box, better safe than sorry.”
Source: At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel
“you're rowing by wordlight”
“You're sacking them, you're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.”
“You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.”
Source: Morning in the Burned House
“You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the first story he ever wrote me, 'Once upon a time, there was a boy.' And that became 'Once upon a time there was a boy who wanted to fly.' And they kept getting better and better over time. I never found out if the boy got to fly." I gave her a small smile. If only she knew the boy's wings had been clipped.”
“You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“You're safe only when you can't see anybody.”
“You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.”
“You're safer not believing what you read in the New York Times. I don't care what it's about, but certainly that you're safer not believing anywhere in the mainstream media the general thrust of this story, that the Russians wanted Donald Trump to win and hacked the Democrats and embarrassed John Podesta and Hillary Clinton and succeeded.”
“You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.”
“You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?”
“You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.”
Source: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
“You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.”
Source: The First Codex
“You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.”
“You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.”
“You're scared of what you can't control”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one stay alive,I've found.What on earth is so bad about a stupid school saying no?" "My life"-I gasped-"is over.It's over. Everything." He frowned dubiously. "Who would want to go to a place called Georgetown, anyhow? Ridiculous. Now,I could understand your devastation if it had a distinguished name like, say, Jacktown, but as it is,you're overreacting. Why do you want to go to more school? I went once for a few hours and nearly lost my mind.”
“You're screening your calls?" "Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots." "Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl. "You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(...)”
Source: Magic Strikes
“You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.”
“You're searching...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles.”
Source: The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems
“You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.”
“You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.”
“You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice”
“You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!”
“You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!”
Source: Murder in our midst
“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”
“You're sick. Sick and evil and weird.”
“You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.”
Source: The First Circle
“You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.”
“You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?”