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“You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this."”
“You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.”
“You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.”
“You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.”
“You decide which ones makes more sense, which is more practical and more logical to accept.”
“You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.”
“You decide your fate. If you give up on this, you might as well retire from life and go on to Himalayas because if a man don't think he has a control over his life he's as good as dead.”
“You decided to think, you found time to think and you sat and thought, but if you didn't think right then it was all in vain!”
“You declared yourself High Lady.'
'Was I not supposed to?'
He released my arm to brush his knuckles across my cheek. 'I've wanted to roar it from the rooftops of Velaris from the moment the priestess anointed you. How typical of you to upend my grand plans.'
A smiled tugged on my lips. 'It happened less than an hour ago. I'm sure you could go crow from the chimney right now and everyone would give you credit for breaking the news.'
His fingers threaded through my hair, tilting my face up. That wicked smile grew, and my toes curled in their boots. 'There's my darling Feyre.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.”
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts
“You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already.”
Source: David Copperfield
“You defeat defeatism with confidence.”
Source: Lombardi - Rules and Lessons on What It Takes to Be #1 (EBOOK BUNDLE)
“You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.”
“You defile everything you touch.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.”
Source: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux
“You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.”
“You define you.”
“You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.”
“You defined yourself by participating in other people's lives.”
Source: Contacts
“You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.”
“You definitely feed off the people around you, and your man is one of the people you talk to the most. So you kind of help each other and keep each other strong. It's important.”
“You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, "Man, I need that much."”
“You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.”
“You definitely go through a stage, most coaches do, where you see a good player and you get enamored, you really like what the player does, but then when you put him into your system, it's not quite the same player that he was in another system. He has some strengths, but you cant utilize all those strengths. If you try to utilize all his strengths, you end up weakening a lot of other players who are already in your system.”
“You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.”
“You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.”
“You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.”
“You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.”
“You definitely shouldn't watch the special features before you watch the actual series.”
“You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.”
“You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”
Source: The Egyptologist: A Novel
“You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that”
“You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.”
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.”
Source: The Knights
“You demand my surrender as though you were not aware that Cleopatra preferred to die a queen rather than remain alive, however high her rank.”
“You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.”
“YOU DEMAND SALVATION EVEN AS YOU STEAL FROM THE COLLECTION PLATE.
YOU SEND FOOD TO THE REFUGEES, AND THEN YOU DON'T ALLOW THE DELIVERY TRUCKS THROUGH THE WARZONES. THE FOOD WILL SPOIL , THE SUPPLIES WILL BE SOLD BY THE VICTORS . THE CIVILIANS WILL STARVE AND SICKEN AND EVENTUALLY DIE.
IT IS THE WAY OF THINGS. THEY WILL ALL DIE, WHETHER FROM THE BRUTAL SAVAGERY THAT IS UNIQUE TO MAN OR FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF DISEASE OR FROM THE SCARCITY OF SUSTENANCE.”
Source: Rage
“You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary tasks of living as a half-decent person. Does your mother fix you breakfast? She is a hero. Does your father visit you every weekend without fail? A hero. Does your teacher mark your papers faithfully when you make a mistake? Unexampled heroism, that. If everyone is a hero, then no one is a hero; and genuine heroes will go unnoticed in all the mindless self-congratulation.”
“You demonstrate biblical love when you take steps to restore a fellow-believer overtaken in sin. This not only encourages a fallen believer to return to his first love of Jesus Christ, but it also gives others involved in the restoration process on-going opportunities to examine the depth of their love to the Lord.”
“You denied me your green grape.
When ripe, you sent me on my way.
Do you now begrudge me
a small bite of your dry raisin?”
“You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.”
“You deny the existence of magic. It's tragic. Aren't you a child born from the ashes of stars? Born from light to decide a life?”
“You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.”
“You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city’s white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“You deprived me of the snuggles-that cannot be forgiven!”
Source: Neverseen
“You describe her as an Eden.
This rare, unknowable place. Distant.
And you tell me to wear her skin but I refuse.
I shift in my seat. Distant.
What is it about the men that go looking for old lovers in new women. And why is it that they always want you to touch them like she touched them. Wear her head like a show piece. Use her words as lipstick.”
“You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.”
“You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.”