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“Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.”
Source: Journals, with Letters and Related Documents
“Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.”
“Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.”
“Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.”
“Your foundation determine your future”.”
“Your fragility is also your strength.”
“Your fragments of knowledge will lead to competence. Your competence will lead to fluency. Your fluency will intensify to higher and higher levels of fluency. The best attitude, however, is that your attempt to master the foreign language, should remain perpetually unfinished business. You'll succeed if you make sure you never go to bed knowing no more of your target language than you did when you woke up!”
Source: How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own
“Your fragrance wafts into the spaces between my breaths
While I keep staring at the sky every night
The stars and the moon asked me your name
And I just blushed and smiled...”
“Your frame is a mental structure that determines how you see the universe. The viewpoint and fundamental meaning of a conversation are its frames.”
“Your frame of reference is what you see.”
“Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.”
Source: The Writing Life
“Your freedom begins where you stop doing what the others expect from you.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.”
“Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.”
“Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Your friend is your needs answered.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone.”
Source: True Love
“Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.”
“Your friend the Turtle... He died a few years ago. The old idiot puked inside his shell and choked to death on a galaxy or two. Very sad, don't you think? But also quite bizarre.”
Source: It
“Your friend will argue with you.”
“Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”
Source: Sample of the CITYs
“Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.”
“Your friendliness with people does not make them your friends.”
“Your friends and I want you to stay aware of your surroundings, James Ed. These days you cannot anticipate what a disgruntled, former employee might do.”
Source: James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
“Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that’s who forms our poetics.”
“Your friends and your family, if you're close to them, they won't let you get too far from who you were or from who you are. And so I love staying close to people who've always known me. That's probably the best leavening that you could possibly have.”
“your friends are all in varying crises of their own and there's no one really to unpack something that happened five years ago with because everyone's tired of talking about it but it's still the biggest deal in the world to you even though it isn't and everything's fine - sometimes the mind does wonder, you know?”
Source: Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark
“Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are only “frail.” They are not artistic: they are only lascivious. They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self-respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.”
Source: Man and Superman
“Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“Your friends are not your caregiver.”
“Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.”
“Your friends are stronger than your beliefs.”
“Your friends are there for you to learn from their pain and grow.”
“Your friends are your world.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd
They hardly know you, or if one remains
To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations
“Your friends become one with your spirit. That's why people who stay too long in friendship, eventually begin to resemble each other and reason alike.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely.”
Source: Crosspaths Multitude to Success
“Your friends dress like your enemies, and your enemies dress like your friends.”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“Your friends love you anyway.”
“Your friends may influence your decisions even more than your parents will.”
“Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.”
“Your friends mourn your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone.”
Source: True Love
“Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.”
Source: Education in human values
“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
“Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.”
Source: Max Q Student Journal
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah