Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.”
“You can paint your soul with any medium.”
“You can parade your mouth around all day, but that doesn’t mean that you were ever in a parade or even anywhere near one.”
“You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“You can parody almost anything.”
“You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.”
Source: The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958
“You can party all night or pray all night. The former may be fun, but it will not give you the right results.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s stomach...) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can’t kill all your fun. (Chris)”
“You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?”
Source: Loderunner
“You can pass through the world doing wrong, but there is no turning back.”
“You can pave a positive path every day with a good attitude.”
“You can pay attention to almost anything in your life. All you need is an intentional mind wanting to pay attention to any experience or activity.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.”
“You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only way people's wages are going to rise overall, or average median income is going to rise, is if you increase productivity.”
“You can pay for school, but you can't buy class”
“You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.”
“You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.”
“You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?”
“You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.”
“You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.”
Source: Healology
“You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.”
“You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.”
Source: Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul
“You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead.”
Source: The Mirror & the Light
“You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary motivation.”
“You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.”
“You can pick any game and there are two or three plays that determine whether you win or lose, going either way. That's the beauty of the league, man. Every game counts, no matter who you're playing or what their record is.”
“You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team”
“You can pick up a cat by its tail because you assume that the part of the cat that can do you damage is on the other end. But it’s amazing how fast the other end can find its way to this end.”
“you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“You can picture it, can't you? The moment when time caught to us, the slant of light in which the familiar turned strange.”
Source: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.”
“You can plan ahead, you just can’t worry ahead”
“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
Source: Crossing to Safety
“You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.”
Source: Selected Essays and Articles: The Look of Things
“You can plan for a hundred years. But you don't know what will happen the next moment.”
“You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right place at the right moment, and everything falls into place. If you want to believe in something like Fate, she's a capricious character. Sometimes she stand there blocking the doorway you were born to pass through, and sometimes she takes you by the hand and leads you through the minute you poke your nose out. And the stars gaze down and keep their counsel.”
Source: Little Star: A Novel
“You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.”
“You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.”
“You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.”
“You can plant a dream.”
“You can plant a tree to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, a promotion or a business success. Tree hugging is the easiest yoga art to connect you with nature.”
Source: Yoga The Science of Well-Being
“You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.”
“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.”
“You can play and try to get focused for that time, but still the reality of that whole situation is once that game is over you still have to be confronted with what's going on. I think that's where the senior leadership on your football team has to come. They have to understand that we have a responsibility to reach our goals and that's to win the championship.”
“You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.”
“You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology”
“You can play dumb, yes?"
"I may do it permanently. Look where being clever got me.”
Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
“You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you.”
“You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.”