Y Quotes
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“You drool when you sleep.”
Source: The lightning thief
“You drop my name again, I’ll hunt you down and cut off everything that protrudes from your body. You get me?”
Source: Rock Chick Revolution
“You drop your heavy luggage at departure airport and pick it up at your arrival airport. Being possessive about things and people will only deny you entry into flights of life. Trust the higher powers. What is yours will remain yours.”
“You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.”
“You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.”
“You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt.”
“You drown him by your talk.”
“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
“You drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.”
“You drugged her?"
" It was Tieren's order, " said Hastra, chastised. "He said she was mad and stubborn and no use to us dead." (...)
"And what do you plan to do when she wakes up back?"
Hastra shrank back. "Apologize?"
Kell made an exasperated sound as Lila nuzzled - actually nuzzled - his shoulder.
"I suggest," he snapped at the young man, "you think of something better. Like an escape route.”
Source: A Conjuring of Light
“You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.”
“You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.”
Source: Where She Went
“You dumb asshole,” Ross said to Nate.“You could be a freakin’ amoeba and
you’d still be a brother. And the only reason I’m not throwing a punch
right now is because you had such a dipshit upbringing you don’t get that.”
“You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?”
Source: I'll Be Here
“You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.”
Source: I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems
“you dwell, said he, in the city of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone: be content, good neighbours, and go along with me.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.”
“You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!”
“You earn money, and one day money is there -- then life says to you, 'What have you got?' But you don't listen. Now you think you have to put your money into politics, you have to become a prime minister or a president -- then everything will be okay. One day you are a prime minister, and life again says, 'What have you got?' You don't listen. You go on thinking of something else and something else and something else. Life is vast -- that's why many lives are wasted.”
“You earn someone's trust, sometimes, in a short or long period, but your wrong behavior breaks it in a second; it is very hard to achieve back it on a level you had.”
“You earn the respect you don't ask for it. If you're asking, it means you haven't earned it.”
“You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple”
“You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.”
“You earn your reputation by the things you do every day.”
“You earth, you soil, you chewing monster of human hearts in casseroles...”
Source: SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere
“You easily close yourself off to certain things because you want to seem like you know it all, or you're not weak - emotion is often confused as weakness - so when emotions are undeniably physically affecting you, I think it's a gift.”
“You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot”
Source: Shiloh
“You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.”
“You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.”
“You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.”
“You eat cheeseburgers in a single direction. You don’t eat a circle around the outside, or at least you shouldn’t.”
Source: sciVive
“You eat like a caveman."
"No, I don't," he says angrily. And then, a moment later: "Do I?"
Warner to Kenji”
Source: Defy Me
“You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.”
“You eat the room service employees every time?” Denise asked, shocked. “Of course. But don’t fret on their behalf. I always tip well.”
Source: First Drop of Crimson
“You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.”
Source: Chaos and Kingdom
“You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.”
“You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq: to which is prefixed the life of the author
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
“You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.”
“You either a poet or a homosexual."
"Oh, shit, that's fucked up. Why can't I be both?”
Source: The White Boy Shuffle
“You either add colour or paleness to the world!”
“You either add value to your time, reproduce yourself, speed your time or you just waste time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.”
“You either are a good director or you're not.”
“you either are or aren't”
Source: Suicide Notes
“You either become a cop or a serial killer.”
“You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without it, or you don't. If you don't it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay.”
“You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.”
“You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.”
“You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.”