Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu is in it.”
“You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.”
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“You can tell how much viewers enjoy your videos by how long they watch”
“You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!”
“You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting.”
Source: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”
“You can tell I have kids right? Just so I don't break out into a Barney tune here in three minutes.”
“You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.”
“You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.”
“You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.”
“You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.”
“You can tell if someone's into you. You can feel the chemistry.”
“You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnt. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I thinkI done the best with itI knew how but itstill wasntmine. It neverhas been.”
“You can tell it’s nearly Christmas when you hear the Feliz Navidad song. (Or ‘Police, where’s my Dad?’ as I like to call it.)”
“You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.”
Source: The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels
“You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.”
“You can tell James Duthie to shove that quiz. I have a few other words I can tell you about the quiz.”
“You can tell me another Star War.”
“There’s only one,” Liz says, exasperated. “And I’ve told it to you already.”
“But you love it, so tell it again.”
Her eyes flare with pleasure as she glances back at me. “You want to hear it again? Really?”
“I like the things you like,” I tell her simply, and hold her tight.”
Source: Ice Planet Honeymoon: Raahosh & Liz
“You can tell me anything you want to about investment, but you can't move no money of mine, so I know where all of mine is. Now, if we ain't got a lot, it's our fault.”
“You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.”
Source: The Enchanted
“You can tell me I’m dead until the words lose their meaning, but it won’t change that I’m not, and I don’t want to waste the time I have.”
Source: The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried
“You can tell me to stop any time you want, but you won't.”
“You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.”
“You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.”
“You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.”
Source: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”
Source: Survivor
“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
So you just walk home.”
Source: Survivor
“You can tell people your name, but then, behind your back, they just call you what they see you as: you’re a boss, an employee, a husband, lover, friend… most people just call me asshole.”
Source: Lost Seeking Dreams
“You can tell Rook his statue's become something like the patron saint for Our Lady, and you can see whores there night and day, praying for safe childbirth and protection from diseases and the like. Though why they think he's the man to go to for that kind of help is beyond me. Just thought he might like to know there're whores on their knees in front of them- so I guess that goes back to what I was saying about things never changing.”
Source: Dragon Soul
“You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.”
“You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.”
Source: Yes Please
“You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.”
“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.”
“You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.”
Source: Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.”
“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”
“You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.”
Source: Adventures in the Dream Trade
“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”
“You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.”
“You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.”
“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
“You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”
“You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.”
“You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.”
“You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.”
“You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.”
“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
“You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.”
“You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.”