Y Quotes
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“You are a wise man, Major, and I will consider your advice with great care—and humility." He finished his tea and rose from the table to go to his room. "But I must ask you, do you really understand what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?"
"My dear boy," said the Major. "Is there really any other kind?”
Source: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“You are a woman in the prime of your life! You should march into a room with your head held high! Like you are walking onto a stage, a battlefield!”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“You are a woman, let them see your fire”
Source: The First Child
“You are a woman made an image of God. Chosen. Beloved. A woman worth fighting for. A woman He died for. If that does not make you the greatest of treasures, I don’t know what else could.”
Source: Daughter of the Rebellion
“You are a woman made in the very image of God. Chosen. Beloved. A woman worth fighting for. A woman He died for. If that does not make you the greatest of treasures, I don’t know what else could.”
Source: Daughter of the Rebellion
“You are a woman. Skin and bones. Veins and nerves. Hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies. Not excuses.”
Source: The Type
“You are a woman so dress like a woman. Be proud. Be sexy”
“You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
Source: The Robber Bride
“You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.”
Source: Love for Love. A Comedy: Written by Mr. Congreve
“You are a wonderful, complex, f*cked-up mess,” you once said to me. Sometimes when you passed these judgements I would flinch, as if the words were darts or sharp tools piercing my skin.”
Source: The Taxidermist's Lover
“You are a wonderful sacred-soul.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man. Yet another parent busting forth with the “man” thing! I’d have to check my chest for signs of hair when I got home.”
“You are a work in progress. Give yourself the space and grace for improvements.”
“You are a work of art.”
“You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.”
“You are a world unto yourself
just waiting to be formed.”
“You are a worthy competitor, the best rival I ever encountered, it is an honour to be your opponent, you are better than me at many things, but you cannot beat me at politeness.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.”
“You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.”
“You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.”
“You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.”
“You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.”
“You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.”
“You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.”
“You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.”
“You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!”
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. …Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!… I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!”
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
Source: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice -- they won't hear you otherwise -- "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything: just hope they'll leave you alone.”
Source: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
“You are about to embark on the most important journey of your life, and that is to awaken.”
Source: Time To Awaken
“You are about to enter an arena, brimming with the darkest moments you will ever experience.”
Source: The Dumb Dumb's Handbook: To Twin Flame Relationships
“You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.”
Source: The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark
“You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.”
“You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.”
“You are about to succeed when the urge to quit is the greatest.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!”
“You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?”
“You are absolutely enough the way you are.”
“You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.”
“you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.”
Source: Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy
“You are absolutely, without a doubt, the greatest most important project that you will ever work on.
Make time for this.
Create magic.”
“You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!”
“You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.”
“You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.”
Source: Angels and Insects
“You are accountable for each and everything that you did or will do in your life.”
“You are acquainted with England,” said Candide; “are they as
great fools in that country as in France?”
“Yes, but in a different manner,” answered Martin. “You know
that these two nations are at war about a few acres of barren land in the
neighborhood of Canada, and that they have expended much greater
sums in the contest than all Canada is worth. To say exactly whether
there are a greater number fit to be inhabitants of a madhouse in the one
country than the other, exceeds the limits of my imperfect capacity; I
know in general that the people we are going to visit are of a very dark
and gloomy disposition.”
“You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.”
“You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume 10: Work, Sex, Money - Mindfulness in Action - Devotion and Crazy Wisdom - Selected Writings
“You are actually in search of nothing - and when you realize this you are free.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.”
Source: Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition