Y Quotes
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“You develop a style from writing a lot.”
“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.”
“You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.”
Source: Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
“You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.”
“You develop faith by doing things that require faith.”
Source: The Other Side of Heaven
“You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.”
“You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.”
Source: Simple Abundance
“You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.”
“You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.”
“You did a brave thing. Be glad of that. Not everyone can be brave. I'm not always.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“You did a politics project on a government that got overthrown on the due date? Man, did anybody ever tell you you've got no luck?"
"I suspected it," said Raymond ironically.”
Source: A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
“You did almost everything the Scarlet Guard and Montfort asked. Gave up everything they wanted. Except that." He points at the crown still nestled on my head "Why? If you knew you would never be able to keep it?"
My answer sounds foolish, like it comes from a child. I say it anyway. "This is my father's crown."
"But the crown is not your father," he says quickly, rising to his feet. In two strides he has me by the shoulder, and his voice softens, "It isn't your mother either. And it won't bring either of them back.”
Source: War Storm
“You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed.”
“You did good Roza. Very good. Now sleep.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“You did good, you work hard. But it doesn’t end there. You’ve got goals to hit, don’t lose sight of them.”
Source: Here Be Sexist Vampires
“You did hurt me. And I hurt you. It’s a popular pastime here.”
“You did it all on your own, letting your humanity guide you to ruin.”
Source: A Vile Season
“You did it, Goldfinch.”
Source: Gleam
“You did it on purpose." Those were the two great disasters in a lifetime of acting.”
Source: No Longer Human
“You did it, Taylor! You did it! You got yourself a backstage pass!" He was screaming in her ear.
"I did?" Great. Now the last thing on earth she wanted to do was face that Brody Gallagher backstage. She never wanted to look him in the eye again.”
Source: Kiss Across Time
“You did it! You are free!!!!!!!!”
Source: Prison post: Letters of support for Peter Greste
“You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.”
“You did listen." He sat back, nodding his head. "Okay, then. Now tell me what you really thought."
"I told you. It was interesting."
"Interesting," he said, "is not a word."
"Since when?"
"It's a placeholder. Something you use when you don't want to say something else." He leaned a little closer to me. "Look, if you're worried about my feelings, don't be. You can say whatever you want. I won't be offended."
"I did. I liked it."
"Tell the truth. Say something. Anything. Just spit it out."
"I—" I began, then stopped myself. Maybe it was the fact that he was so clearly on to me. Or my sudden awareness of how rarely I was honest. Either way, I broke. "I… I didn't like it," I said.
He slapped his leg. "I knew it! You know, for someone who lies a lot, you're not very good at it."
This was a good thing. Or not? I wasn't sure. "I'm not a liar," I said.
"Right. You're nice," he said.
"What's wrong with nice?"
"Nothing. Except it usually involves not telling the truth," he replied. "Now. Tell me what you really thought.”
Source: Just Listen
“You did not believe that you were coming into physical form to right past wrongs, or to fix a broken world, or even to evolve (in the sense that you were currently lacking in something).
Instead you knew this physical experience would be an environment that would provide a balance of contrast from which you would personally make increasingly improved choices that would add to your own expansion, as well as to he collective expansion of All That Is.”
Source: The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships [With CD (Audio)] [VORTEX W/CD] [Paperback]
“You did not believe this was a battle that would be won in your lifetime, and so you resolved yourself to live in that wobbly space where your humanity and rights were openly debated on cable news, and the defense of them was not a requirement for the presidency. You were already a woman, so you knew. Occupying that space was your goddamned specialty.”
Source: In the Dream House
“You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.”
“You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.”
“You did not come into the world to fit in. You came to ignite a light that has no other model.”
“You did not come this far, just to come this far.”
Source: Dream On: Every setback is a little nudge from HIM to Dream On
“You did not come to serve.
You came to create and to SHINE.”
“You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.”
Source: Ruined City
“You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment when I could not find you.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment where I could not find you.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had come to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers”
Source: The Snow Child
“You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This was not done out of malice, spite, or hate, but what they knew best. As ineffective as these habits are, you never stopped to consider another way of loving.”
“You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world, you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of debts being wiped clean.
I say you do not have a name.”
Source: A Dowry of Blood
“You did not lose if you lost things that made you lose yourself.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“You did not lose your voice overnight.
It happened one conversation at a time until apologizing became easier than explaining yourself.”
“You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere”
“You did not prosecute me, you prosecuted the God in you”
“You did not rescue me,” Casiopea replied. “I opened that chest. Besides, I wasn’t a princess in a tower. I knew I’d get away one way or another, and I was not waiting for a god to liberate me.”
Source: Gods of Jade and Shadow
“You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.”
“You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them.”
“You did nothing wrong. I’m going to keep telling you that until you believe it.”
Source: What Unbreakable Looks Like
“You did promise me it'd be the best date of my life...."
She smiled up at him. "Well, a promise is a promise. And I don't think you'll be disappointed.”
Source: To Love a Wolf
“You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?”
Source: The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)
“You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.”