Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.”
“You and I are to be a true member of the provoked generation.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down.”
“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.”
“You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.”
Source: Marriage Workbook: From Surviving to Thriving
“You and I aren't friends either.”
Source: Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel
“You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.”
“you and i
belong to this city
this city which
we both love
this city of stupa
and chanting
of temple and arati
of church and hymn
of masjid and namaz
of gurudwara and
gurbani
this city of love and
affection
this city of culture and
tradition
this city reaching
for a modern sky
yet its roots deep
and ancient!
you and i
belong to this city
this city which we
both love.”
“You and I both have a choice.
We can stand with the starving or with the overfed.
We can identify with poor Lazarus on his way to heaven or with the rich man on his way to hell.
We can embrace Jesus while we give away our wealth, or we can walk away from Jesus while we hoard our wealth.”
Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
“You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work”
“You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''
''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.”
Source: Sinner
“You and I both know there's no end to grief. The solution is to find a way to live alongside it, rather than allowing it to lead you by its leash.”
Source: The City of Dusk
“You and I both know there's got to be some greater storyline for you than 'girl gets heart broken, was sad forever'. I think a nice one would be 'girl gets heart broken, was sad for a while but in her heartbreak she found freedom, friends, and the ability to look back and laugh at all she'd learned. She now lives her life on her own terms and still has fantastic hair.'”
“You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone in a closet of your home. There`s a bright red button. You can push that button and presto all Negroes and Jews and all other colored people are instantly removed from the North American continent and returned to their native countries. You`d push it, wouldn`t you whitey? See? See? See? in the final analysis, you agree with me. But of course, you wouldn`t do antything to bring that scenario about, or any other scenario favorable to your Race.”
“You and I both worry about what it means to put our personal libraries onto one gadget and then what would happen if we dropped it in the bathtub...”
Source: Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading
“You and I By Henry Alford My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; My ear is tired waiting for your call. I want your strength to help, your laugh to cheer; Heart, soul and senses need you, one and all. I droop without your full, frank sympathy; We ought to be together—you and I; We want each other so, to comprehend The dream, the hope, things planned, or seen, or wrought. Companion, comforter and guide and friend, As much as love asks love, does thought ask thought. Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly, We ought to be together, you and I.”
“You and I can accomplish anything when we work together, Sally. You're soft where I'm hard. You're quiet when I am loud. We fill each other's gaps, don't you see?”
Source: Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
“You and I can be more than friends.”
Source: Summer Storms
“You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.”
“You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?”
“You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.”
Source: Stories that could be true: new and collected poems
“You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected.”
“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.”
“You and I could paint the sky together. As the world goes by, we'll go on forever.”
“You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world.”
Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
“You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.”
“You and I enjoy a measure of freedom few have ever known, and it was not our blood that purchased it.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“You and I, friend Less-el-lee,” said that same farmer, clapping the Squire on the shoulder. “We shall come to see if I have built you a house and an enclosure worthy of this paragon among pigs! Come! Come! And if you do not like it, then I shall slay myself in grief!”
Source: Beyond
“You and I, God’s ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to point the way to peace with God and the hope that is in Christ.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“You and I had to meet, Dharam. And this journey of inspiring each other is a meaningful one.”
“You and I happen to one another every day,
Run. Collide. Disseminate. Scatter. Float. Under the melted atom.
But did not react and were not ashed away.
Every day, we happen to each other,
To anticipate the lost words of a half-burned paper.
To salvage our shattered bits of heart.”
Source: The Papery Onions
“You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. I’ll hear you…”
“You and I have a rendevous with destiny.”
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.”
“You and I have always relished damning the odds.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.”
Source: Summer's End
“You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.”
“You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.”
“You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.”
“you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”
Source: Weight of Glory
“You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.”
“You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean”
“You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we're capable of, and what we're willing to do to achieve our dreams.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.”