Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.”
“You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.”
Source: Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
“You don't have to think exactly like me.”
“You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.”
“You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.”
“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.”
“You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you”
“You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food.”
“You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere”
“You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.”
“You don't have to treat people differently. You may be living a different lifestyle, but the person living that different lifestyle still can relate to anybody and have the same amazing personality of the guy from North Philly.”
“You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.”
“You don't have to try, you just have to be.”
Source: Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times
“You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.”
Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.”
“You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.”
“You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.”
“You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put your music out on itunes, youtube, soundcloud, so it's kind of a plus, I think.”
“You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things. You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.”
“You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“You don't have to wait till the beginning of a new year to make resolutions for yourself. It's all about loving and taking care of the only body you will ever have...cherish it, love it, embrace it...Because when you do...It begins to show.”
“You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.”
“You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.”
“You don't have to want death in order to prepare for it.”
“You don't have to wear a sparkly dress all the time! You can wear something that's plain, really, it's okay. No one is going to be mad at you.”
“You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.”
“You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.”
“You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.”
Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness
“You don't have to win it, just don't lose it.”
“You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.”
“You don't have to work at being in the high vibration that is natural to you, because it is natural to you. But you do have to stop holding the thoughts that cause you to lower your vibration. It's a matter of no longer giving your attention to things that don't allow your cork to float or don't allow you to vibrate in harmony with who you really are.”
“You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.”
“You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.”
“You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.”
“You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.”
Source: Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And other Conversations
“You don't have to worry about the guy that threatens to beat you up. Worry about the guy that shows up on your doorstep, looking for a fight.”
Source: Have More Money Now
“You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.”
“You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.”
Source: Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence
“You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!”
“You don't have wisdom for tomorrow's problems. But you will tomorrow. You don't have resources for tomorrow's needs. But you will tomorrow. You don't have courage for tomorrow's challenges. But you will when tomorrow comes.”
Source: Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose
“You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.”
“You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.”
“You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.”
“You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.”
Source: Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
“You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.”
“You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.”
“You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.”