Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You become who you pretend to be.”
“You become who you worship.”
“You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.”
“You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think.”
“You becomes so preoccupied by imagining the negative consequences of the wrong choice, or finding the right choice you overlook the negative consequences of making no choice.”
Source: Overcoming Avoidance Workbook: Break the Cycle of Isolation and Avoidant Behaviors to Reclaim Your Life from Anxiety, Depression, or PTSD
“You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.”
“You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.”
“You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.”
“You been asleep, baby."
My body went still at his words.
Tack kept talking.
"Green tea. Yoga. No TV. Placemats for your coffee table. Thursday night takeaway. You got a night for takeaway. Scheduled. A narrow, little world. Fuck me. Crazy. Fuckin' whacked. I woke you up, opened your eyes to a bigger world and scared you shitless.”
Source: Motorcycle Man
“You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong”
“You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.”
Source: Sula
“You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.”
Source: The Greatest: My Own Story
“You been here all night?” Leo asked.
“Yep,” she said, although night was a foreign concept. It was midday in the book; the sun hot in the field where the boy was working. He was a teenager now, hormones pushing through him like corn toward the sky.”
Source: No Two Persons
“You been tellin' me you're a genius
Since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you
I still don't know what you mean
--Steely Dan”
“You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.”
Source: Honky Tonk Hero
“You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.”
Source: Cursor's Fury
“You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.”
“you began as roots
but you blossom into more
you are not your past
be here, be present
be more”
Source: I hope this reaches her in time
“You began the letter with the form of the cross, and the sound “A,” a symbol of a man and a Christian. With the first nine letters you said that it is good to live honorably in this world. Your signs are letters. Your letters are numbers. Your letters are also symbols.”
Source: AZ
“You began to love
all the women
inside you
and you began to nurse her
back into life
without apologizing
for how she heals herself.”
Source: Questions for Ada
“You began with a lie, what began with a lie was bound to also end with a lie. That is a law of nature.”
Source: The Idiot
“You began with just one rock mid-puddle of the front yard—
we named it “Rock Hudson”—but then came two more to bookend the mud—
“Rock-Around-the-Clock” and “Elizabeth Taylor.”
Source: Signs of Marriage: Poems by Carla Schwartz
“You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.”
“You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”
“You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.”
“You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.”
“You begin looking at things and they look just fine, as normal as ever, but then you look for a while longer and your feelings get involved and they begin changing things for you and they go on and on till you only see your feelings, and that's why you see this mess.”
“You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant and animal species that share your neighbourhood, you don't care about them and can't protect biodiversity.”
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
“You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.”
“You begin to kiss me as though
You are getting oxygen out of each kiss.”
Source: Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura
“You begin to realize if you are keeping something in your life, there has to be a reason you want it there. The only question is why?”
Source: The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
“You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.”
“You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.”
“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important thing you own — never deny that for an instant — it has not shielded you from anything terribly important. The only consolation is that though one could have thrown it away at any time, morning or night, one didn't. One chose to endure. Without any assurance of immortality, or even competence, one only knows one has not been cheated out of the consolation of carpenters, accountants, doctors, ditch-diggers, the ordinary people who must do useful things to be happy. Meander along, then, half blind and a little mad, wondering when you actually learned — was it before you began? — the terrifying fact that had you thrown it away, your wound would have been no more likely to heal: indeed, in an affluent society such as this, you might even have gone on making songs, poems, pictures, and getting paid. The only difference would have been — and you learned it listening to all those brutally unhappy people who did throw away theirs — and they do, after all, comprise the vast and terrifying majority — that without it, there plainly and starkly would have been nothing there; no, nothing at all.”
Source: Dhalgren
“You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
“You begin to understand your personality, your response, and the functions of your body, heart and mind into different situations, events and with different people, with the inward attention.”
“You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.”
“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”
“You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.”
“You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“You behave like the perfect person with others. But you unload all your mental crap on those who are close to you. Is it fair?”
“You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.”
Source: Scaramouche
“You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”
Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader
“You behold the sky and suddenly a love poem arises in your depths, you look deep into the waters and suddenly the ocean speaks to you, you look around and suddenly the silence seems so musical. This earth is an awakening lover, inviting us to fall in love every moment...”
“You being in my arms, heart by heart feels like our love would never end.”
“You believe
In God, for your part?--that He who makes
Can make good things from ill things, best from worst,
As men plant tulips upon dunghills when
They wish them finest.”
Source: Poetical works
“You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.”
“You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.”
Source: The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy