Y Quotes
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“You could be making so much money, and your bank statement gets bigger and bigger, but if you're not psyched to go to work in the morning, it doesn't matter. It sucks. So you wanna just be psyched to see the people that you work with, and have fun with. Then you've won.”
“You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.”
“You could be my entire world, If you let me.”
“You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?”
“you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.”
“YOU COULD BE RACIST BY YOUR ACTIONS OR WORDS
January 2021”
“You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.”
“You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!”
“You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try”
Source: How They Met and Other Stories
“You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire. Do you really think so?' Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.' I don't like the wood elves.' They're okay. They're misunderstood.”
Source: Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“You could be the one. But up close, you are such a disappointement. Your eyes are wary as a kicked dog's, when you and I both know you have never been kicked in your life. Not like me, who has been kicked down with poisons and popped blisters and made to vomit until I weep. That is why I am going to win,”
Source: One Dark Throne
“You could be the smartest person on earth, but nobody will care if you can’t carry yourself the right way.”
“You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .”
“You could be the ugliest person in the world, but still have the most beautiful soul.”
“You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.”
“You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927
“You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.”
“You could be winning and feel like you're losing because the scorecard you're using is unfair.”
“You could be writing the book that changes your life.”
“You could be your own spotlight!”
“You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.”
Source: Letters of Ted Hughes
“You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.”
“You could break my heart in two
But when it heals, it beats for you
I know it's forward but it's true”
“You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.”
“You could buy a car for fifty thousand dollars. A really nice car.” Ascanio’s eyes lit up. “A Hummer. You could buy a converted Hummer.” “You don’t need a Hummer.” I said. “Chicks dig the Hummer.” “You don`t need any chicks either.” He gave me an injured look. “I have needs.” “I have needs too and right now I need you to concentrate on tracking down Jamar`s collection. Get to it.” - Andrea & Ascanio”
Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels
“You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money.”
“You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.”
Source: Bob Hope
“You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.”
Source: The Two Towers
“You could call him," Wes suggests. "Why be a spectator in the game of love? Take charge. Don't wait around and let the boy call all the shots." "As cheesy as all of that sounds," Kimmie adds. "Cheese or not,I know what I'm talking about." He sulks. "I've lived it. I've learned it." Kimmie lets out a laugh. "With who,Romeo? That Wendy girl you paid to date you?" "Oh, and because I don't have a dating history as big as your mouth, it doesn't quite measure up?" "I hate to break this to you, but that isn't the only thing of yours that doesn't measure up." "Wouldn't you like to know?" He grins.”
“You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.”
“You could call me antisocial, I've called myself that sometimes too, but I just prefer to be alone, and that's nothing against you.”
“You could call your cousin a shit if you liked, but not an eunuch. Rotten style!”
Source: Maurice
“You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.”
Source: Stay
“You could carry your burdens lightly or with great effort. You could worry about tomorrow or not. You could imagine horrible fates or garland-filled tomorrows. None of it mattered as long as you moved, as long as you did something. Asking why was fine, but it wasn't action. Nothing brought the rewards of moving, of running. Sometimes you just do things.”
Source: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!”
“You could change direction a hundred more time in your life, and you'd still never be a failure. You're too hard of a worker to ever be considered a failure. Life is meant to be spent chasing happiness.”
Source: Caught Up
“You could change into a goat and it would still apply.”
Source: Magic Study
“You could clone Elvis Presley and, while the clone would look identical, it would not have the utterly unique life experiences that made The King who he was. After all that time, effort and expense, the clone might choose to be a gardener instead of a singer! There's also the ethical dilemma of recreating all the genetic problems Elvis had due to his maternal grandparents being first cousins.”
“You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.”
“You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically use the word. A spiritual person, in the popular conception, is somebody who's kind of aloof from the world, introspective, meditating, communing with non-material beings. That's the spiritual realm, and we elevate it above the material realm. What's more worthy, what's more admirable? Who's the one who has done this hard work on the self, and has done a lot of "practice"? That's the spiritual person.”
“You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“You could consider marrying an excellent woman?' I asked in amazement. 'But they are not for marrying.'
'You're surely not suggesting that they are for the other things?' he said, smiling.
That had certainly not occurred to me and I was annoyed to find myself embarrassed.
'They are for being unmarried,' I said, 'and by that I mean a positive rather than a negative state.”
Source: Excellent Women
“You could consider the idea of the multiverse, and think of it as something like a tree—that is, the universe we live in is one of an uncountable number of branches of possible universes, created by random chance and the decisions of sentient beings. So, for instance, when I rang you up in the morning, there was a possible future universe in which you answered the phone, and another in which you did not, and by answering the phone you put us in one universe and not the other. In that instance the time traveler doesn't just move from the future to the past and back to the future: he moves down one branch of the universe, toward the root that's back at the beginning of time, and back up another branch.”
Source: Version Control
“You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from life and see that the world finds that person infinitely more irresistible...”
Source: Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
“You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.”
“You could criticise any marriage; it was the essence of a marriage to be criticism.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“you could cry, get worried or angry like any other human being, as long as you remembered that up above your spirit was laughing out loud at those thorny situation”
“You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.”
“You could cut me open and devour everything that I am. I would let you. I’d ask you to.”
Source: Don't Let the Forest In
“You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.”