Y Quotes
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“You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There's no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.”
“You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.”
“You can build a much more wonderful company on love than you can on fear.”
“You can build a new life in a new city, but ghosts don't need directions to find you.”
Source: The Wringler: A Letter From Home
“You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.”
“You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.”
“You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“You can build a whole world of lies, as long as each lie reinforces every other lie. You can create a masterful structure of sheer logic if you begin with one false postulate. All it takes is consistency.”
Source: Grifter's Game
“You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.”
“You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“You can build something new, one person, one relationship, one meal at a time. You can build friendships instead of watering the flowers alongside our long-held fences. You can choose to believe in the unshakable goodness of those across the Pew or political divide. You can choose fierce kindness by speaking the truth to people about the impact their decisions make on the vulnerable. You can call Self Supremacy the liar it is. It's a bait and switch.”
Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First
“You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.”
Source: The First Circle
“You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. There is no reason why you can't build your company the same way. So force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. Basically take out that red and start eliminating stuff.”
“You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.”
“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.”
“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
“You can build walls in an instant. Taking them down again is the work of a lifetime.”
Source: Love Is an Algorithm
“You can build your business life where you are working with people you want to work with. Then it becomes a pleasure, and then you can do better.”
Source: The Muscle & Strength Pyramid - Training
“You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively.”
“You can burn brighter than they can, if you have too.”
Source: Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
“You can burn libraries, ban books, boycott scholars, and blacklist intellectuals, but you cannot blot out ideas.”
“You can burn my letters, but my words—I buried them in you.”
Source: Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire
“You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.”
“You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.”
“You can buy a clock,
but you cannot buy time.
You can buy a bed,
but you cannot buy sleep.
You can buy excitement,
but you cannot buy bliss.
You can buy luxuries,
but you cannot buy satisfaction.
You can buy pleasure,
but you cannot buy peace.
You can buy possessions,
but you cannot buy contentment.
You can buy entertainment,
but you cannot buy fulfillment.
You can buy amusement,
but you cannot buy happiness.
You can buy books,
but you cannot buy intelligence.
You can buy degrees,
but you cannot buy wisdom.
You can buy fame,
but you cannot buy honor.
You can buy a reputation,
but you cannot buy character.
You can buy a priest,
but you cannot buy a miracle.
You can buy a doctor,
but you cannot buy health.
You can buy a scientist,
but you cannot buy discoveries.
You can buy a leader,
but you cannot buy power.
You can buy acceptance,
but you cannot buy friendship.
You can buy companions,
but you cannot buy loyalty.
You can buy allies,
but you cannot buy dependability.
You can buy partners,
but you cannot buy fidelity.
You can buy clothes,
but you cannot buy class.
You can buy toys,
but you cannot buy youth.
You can buy women,
but you cannot buy love.
You can buy houses,
but you cannot buy homes.
You can buy a computer,
but you cannot buy intellect.
You can buy makeup,
but you cannot buy beauty.
You can buy a pen,
but you cannot buy imagination.
You can buy a paintbrush,
but you cannot buy inspiration.
You can buy opinions,
but you cannot buy truth.
You can buy assumptions,
but you cannot buy facts.
You can buy evidence,
but you cannot buy faith.
You can buy fantasies,
but you cannot buy reality.”
“You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.”
“You can buy a man's time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm... you cannot buy loyalty... you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, mind or souls. You must earn these.”
“You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“You can buy a sport bike at the age of 54. You're as young as you keep yourself. So eat healthy, work passionate, and stay fit.”
“You can buy almost anything anyplace in the world. You can get it delivered in 24 hours. You can pay for it on credit or just by swiping something. So, I don't know that the world is worse off, in that context, than before.”
“You can buy anything with the currency of time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.”
“You can buy beer now," she said, finding it almost funny after how much effort they used to go to get it in high school.
It's one of my proudest accomplishments.”
Source: Second Chance Ranch
“You can buy history, but you can't buy a culture.”
“You can buy life only with life.”
“You can buy momentary fame with money, but not authenticity that lasts for thousands of years.”
“You can buy muscles, but you can't buy COJONES!”
“You can buy some more clothes, by and by, and another stereo and alll that. That’s all right, That’s not the worst. The worst thing is that you slowly begin to hate, to despise this person, this person that you loved. You hate him because he hates himself. And that’s horrible, I swear to feel your love drip out of you, drop by drop, until you empty of it and there’s just a big, hurting hole. It’s terrible, but you wish your friend had died. That way, you could have wept for him and out him away and by and by it would be all right, everything would be clean. You wouldn’t have that filthy taste of contempt and hatred on your tongue, and you wouldn’t have that hurting, empty hole. That hole I got in me right now, that hole which sends burning water and ice-cold water all up and down my spine, every time I think of Red.” He stubbed out his cigarette. “My heart”.”
Source: Just Above My Head
“You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.”
“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”
“You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.”
“You can call a man my many names by he is what his Maker has made of him.”
“You can call a thing possible which is still to happen, but not which has already taken place.”
Source: Johnny Fracture
“You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him, you will give to Him holy kisses, you will wash Him with your tears, you will carry Him within you like Mary Most Holy.”
“You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed.”
“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.”
Source: Love at First Sight: A Hot Bed Sampler
“You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.”
“You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains in its intrinsic nature, never changing. It always remains in its selfsame essence, eternally so. That is your real nature. That which changes is not you, that is mind. That which does not change in you is buddha-mind. You can call it no-mind, you can call it samadhi, satori. It depends upon you; you can give it whatsoever name you want. You can call it christ-consciousness.”