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“You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.”
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
“You can hold any girl that you like
Fall in love when its easy at night
But you wake up wondering why
She aint ever something better
When youre lost and youve run out of road
Find what I already know
In the end close is all there is
But you wont find this”
“You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead.”
“You can hold onto anything to make you carry on.”
“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka
“You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.”
“You can home in a satellite - counting the people inside. And still, we feel protected by closing and locking the door. - The Illusion of a Door”
“You can homeschool whether you loved school, hated school, or were somewhere in the middle.”
Source: Homeschoolers Are Not Hermits: A Practical Guide to Raising Smart, Confident, and Socially Connected Kids
“You can honor this feeling. Grieve the loss of something you wanted very much. But these feelings are like waves. We’re better for acknowledging them. Allow this to move you but don’t let it drag you under. It’ll pass, honey. And you’ll still be standing.”
Source: The Someday Daughter
“You can hope all you want for a happy ending, but sometimes, like it or not, the guy writing your story is working on a tragedy; you may not even be the main character.”
“You can hope and wish and pray that those things are legitimate conversions and that [Hillary Clinton] now is a different candidate, a person with a different philosophy. That's something that, you know, sometimes, yes, it's hard to believe.”
“You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.”
“You can hope for much,
but if you don't do much
you won't get much”
“You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.”
“You can hurt and also be loved. You can feel sadness and also laugh and feel joy. Good emotions can coexist with hard ones. You can struggle and suffer and learn to heal while you also love.”
Source: The Plus One
“You can hurt me in ways no one else can. You won’t ever need a dagger for it, Davina. Without lifting a finger, you could break and shatter me completely.”
Source: A Tale of Love and Curses
“You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.”
Source: Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“You can hurt people's feelings if you laugh.”
“You can hurt the man who doesn’t want to be hurt. But you can’t heal a man who doesn’t want to heal.”
“You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.”
“You. Can I trust you?”
“You’ve threatened me, belittled me, mocked me and manhandled me.”
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“I’d say that since none of that has achieved the results you wanted, you could certainly afford to choose a different course.”
Source: Sworn
“You can if you think you can.”
“You can ignite the senses and directly alter their state of mind and body through this scent, sparking a subliminal key to attraction.”
“You can ignore me, Rachel, and you can try to treat me as a friend, but none of that will erase the fact that I think about kissing you every second I’m awake and dream at night of my hands on your body. And it sure as hell won’t erase that I’m terrified by how much I like you.”
Source: Crash into You
“You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
“You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution. What has happened is that one species has developed, and the genetic structure of this species happens to involve a variety of intricate abstract principles of linguistic organization that, therefore, necessarily constrain every language, and, in fact, create the basis for learning language as a way of organizing experience rather than constituting something learned from experience.”
“You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.”
“You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.”
“You can imagine how the kids teased me, with a name like Chris Hemsworth. 'Kiss Ham'sWart'-that's what they called me. Meaning if there was a piece of ham with an ugly wart on it, I was such a loser I'd probably kiss it. It was endless.”
“You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!”
“You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.”
“You can imagine or pretend to know your partner, but you will still be surprised at the end of the day.”
“You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on.”
“You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.”
“You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.”
“You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.”
“You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession.”
“You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.”
“You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.”
“You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!”
“You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.”
“you can imitate a light like mine but you cannot become it”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“You can immediately go to a place you could never have imagined because you chose a new paradigm.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.”
“You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
You can kill a man, but not an idea.”
Source: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography
“You can improve upon yourself.”
“You can improve your skills; you can be the best”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.”
“You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.”
“You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything. I already know what words are perched on your tongue. Stop me if I'm wrong, but my getting to know you will be your pleasure.”
Source: The Darkest Passion