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“You celebrate a person's life by living your life fully.”
“You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions that comes up with a successful product or a successful film. That's what you hope for. But, nothing about the system is 100% fool proof.”
“You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.”
“You certainly do have strange dreams.”
“You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays.”
“You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.”
“You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.”
“You certainly get used to winning in general. Winning the Champions League is a very particular feeling, but it's really the journey that makes it special. Every journey that brings you toward a win is important.”
“You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.”
“You certainly have a lot of stamina," she said. When had they last spoken? It could have been ten minutes or an hour ago. The masked faces around them blurred together.
"While some parents hit their children, mine also punished me with dancing lessons."
"Then you must have been a very naughty boy." She glanced around the ball, as if she were looking for something--or someone.
"You're gracious with your compliments tonight.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in a beautiful spring (or summer) landscape. Running, running, running and laughing. By laughing the two runners are proclaiming to the whole world, to audiences in all the movie theaters: "We're happy, we're glad to be in the world, we're in agreement with being!" It's a silly scene, a cliche, but it expresses a basic human attitude: serious laughter, laughter "beyond joking."
All churches, all underwear manufacturers, all generals, all political parties, are in agreement about that kind of laughter, and all of them rush to put the image of the two laughing runners on the billboards advertising their religion, their products, their ideology, their nation, their sex, their dishwashing powder.”
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.”
Source: The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics
“You change all the time. Everything changes you.”
“You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.”
“You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough that you have to.”
“You change - just you - you the individual - you the one human - and slowly but surely, little by little, the entire society will change.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“You change or you hide your head in the sand.”
“You change our world for the better by changing our world for the better.”
“You change people by delight, by pleasure.”
“You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.”
Source: God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it
“You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.”
“You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.”
Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know
“You change the past when you change the way you see it.”
“You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.”
“You change the rules or you are going under.”
“you change the texture of my universe; how the light bends to be here, just falling all around you… you are like golden hour; it all glows different when you're here.”
“You change the world, but the world changes you, too. There’s no getting around it. I have to survive here, no matter what it costs me.”
Source: The Clearing
“You change the world by being yourself.”
“You change to change you.”
Source: Slate
“You change with the guys you date.”
“You change your future and influence it by how you are being every moment.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“You change your life by changing your heart.”
Source: Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)
“You change your mind Like a girl changes clothes”
“You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.”
“You changed Iggy’s color?” she asked, heading over to his cage, where, sure enough, the tiny imp had yet another new look. His neatly trimmed, gold, sparkly fur was now a much poofier ice blue with tiny crimps.
“Huh, I figured he’d be pink and purple,” Sophie admitted, pointing to Ro’s colorful pigtails.
Ro tossed her head, swishing her hair in the process. “Uh, no, I’m not sharing my fabulous style with anyone—much less a creature who spent the last hour eating his own toenails. But I thought it was only right to save your imp from being sparkle-fied—and I was going to be nice and turn him your favorite color. But apparently your favorite color is teal—and yeah, yeah, we all know why. But, um, do you realize how many of the nastiest little microbes are in that color?" She shuddered. "I couldn't do that to you—or the little dude. So I went with a nice ice blue. The kind of color you can't help but love. Classic. Reliable—”
Source: Legacy
“You changed my life," she said again. "At least part of it. I'm beginning to see it's the best part of it. I want you to know that. I want you to remember that when we get back and things settle into routine, if I forget to let you know what I feel or what I think or how much you mean to me."
Touched, he pressed his curved lips to her brow. "I won't let you forget. Come to bed. You're tired.”
Source: Rapture in Death
“You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.”
“You changed the course of your life once. There is no better cat to help Riley and Bella follow their hearts. Every cat deserves to choose their own path.”
Source: Ravenpaw's Farewell
“You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.”
“You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity”
Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“You chase me. I don't chase anyone.”
“You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying.”
Source: Releasing The Wolf
“You chased after money to pay your mortal debts as your moral debts grew." - Jesus from "The Destroyer of Worlds" by Steven Seril”
Source: The Destroyer of Worlds: An Answer to Every Question
“You chased love when you were young,
You chased fame when you were ambitious,
You chased health when you were sick,
You chased wealth when you were poor,
But what should you chase when you get old?
I tell you what -- chase your dreams till the end of your life,
because that's what your life is meant to be.”
“You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.”
“You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?”
“YOU CHEATING SCUM!” Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall’s reach. “YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B —” Professor McGonagall didn’t even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy’s direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously.”
“You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.”