Y Quotes
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“You have a lot more power than you are giving
yourself credit for. Please embrace it.”
“You have a lot more to give, the older you get. And you want to give it. I mean, some people want to give it. But there is a desire to pass down, to have a hand in the past and a hand in the future. There's a continuum.”
“You have a lot of children that come up to you... and their parents tell you, and sometimes even [the children themselves] tell you how much they love singing your nasheeds. It is a great source of satisfaction that even now you can make a difference in the lives of people.”
“You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.”
“You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.”
“You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.”
“You have a lot of stages as an actor.”
“You have a lot of suspicion from the neighbors of Afghanistan about U.S. intentions. Iran is already, to some extent, trying to undermine the U.S. in Afghanistan. Russia is now becoming increasingly nervous about a more permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia. And China is not keen that the U.S. should be so close to its borders over a long period of time. Certainly, if the U.S. is going to be there for a long time, it's going to exacerbate regional tensions.”
“You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.”
“You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where there has been progress and there has been change.”
“You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.”
“You have a lot of young people who still feel somewhat marginalized, even if they do vote for Hillary Clinton.”
“You have a lot to learn before becoming a champion. Once you are champion, you must accept the consequences.”
“You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.”
Source: Red
“You have a lovely figure. You should show it off more, not hide it beneath those tatty jeans and T-shirts you're always wearing."
Maggie turns in front of the mirror, pushing back her shoulders, feeling the soft fabric move about her bare legs. She doesn't feel like herself. "It's not very me."
"You look beautiful."
"But probably a little much... you know, for what is essentially just standing around in a field with a lot of other people drinking tea and admiring vegetables?"
Lillian laughs. "Why should you care what other people think? Worrying about them will only stifle your own life. Trust me, everyone is far too wrapped up in themselves to worry about you, Maggie Oberon. You'll see." There is a force to her grandmother's words that surprises Maggie. "You will never be as young or as beautiful as you are today. Be bold. Seize the life that was meant to be yours. Make it magnificent.”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“You have a make-believe friend, it’s a disease. You have a make-believe caretaker, that’s a religion.”
Source: The Radicalist
“You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into compost and grow a garden.”
Source: Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict
“You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.”
Source: Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
“You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.”
“You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.”
“You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.”
“You have a memory chip that small implanted in you,” he verified. I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“You have a million possibilities open to you, but in the end you need to make a commitment, or you stay in a holding pattern of indecision and nothingness forever.”
“You have a minute and a half left."
"Fine," she snapped. "Then I'll reduce this conversation to one single fact. Today I had six callers. Six! Can you recall the last time I had six callers?"
Anthony just stared at her blankly.
"I can't," Daphne continued, in fine form now. "Because it has never happened. Six men marched up our steps, knocked on our door, and gave Humboldt their cards. Six men brought me flowers, engaged me in conversation, and one even recited poetry."
Simon winced.
"And do you know why?" she demanded, her voice rising dangerously. "Do you?"
Anthony, in his somewhat belatedly arrived wisdom, held his tongue.
"It is all because he"—she jabbed her forefinger toward Simon—"was kind enough to feign interest in me last night at Lady Danbury's ball.”
Source: The Duke And I
“You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.”
“You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.”
“You have a mother?"
His mouth quirked with humor.
"Yep, and a father too! Every kid normally has one of each to begin with.
He was teasing me in an affectionate way...”
Source: The Vampire...In My Dreams
“You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.”
“You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?”
“You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.”
“You have a natural, spontaneous intelligence inside you.”
“You have a new media system and Donald Trump emerged as a new master of it.”
“You have a new message from Big Daddy Dick.” The voice goes on to read the text out loud. “Quit fucking ignoring me, woman! I’m going to give you until midnight, and if you have not responded to me by then, I will show up at your house, knock down your door, and tie you to your bed. I’ll fuck that sweet cunt in ways you didn’t even know were possible while my belt is wrapped around your neck. Then when I’ve had enough of that pussy, I’ll move on to that smart-ass mouth of yours because we both know how much you love choking on my cock. Lastly, I will bend you over my knee with your hands tied behind your back and spank your ass until it’s black and blue before I pin you to the floor and fuck it as well. You won’t be able to walk for a week, let alone sit down. And that’s a goddamn promise!”
A silence follows before Emilee begins to whistle. “Damn. Maybe you should get some lingerie for him while we’re shopping today. Give him something to rip off before he has his way with you.”
“A restraining order sounds more appropriate,” April jokes with a laugh.
Jasmine just smiles, reaching over and presses ignore to the text, and the music once again fills the car.
“Are you going to respond to that?” I ask wide-eyed.
“Nope.” She gives me a quick glance and winks. “A man is only as good as his word.”
Source: Bones
“You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it."
"You should taste it. It's quite lovely.”
Source: Hopeless
“You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.”
Source: DUNE
“You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.”
“You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.”
Source: The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“You have a part of me that no one, and I mean no one, has ever had before.”
Source: Forgiven
“You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all”
“You have a passion, don’t give it up. You’ll need it to keep the shadows at bay when this world goes wrong.”
“You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.
Raspberry Jam”
Source: The Pan Book of Horror Stories
“You have a personal birthright to believe in a God-given mission for your life.”
Source: Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible
“You have a personal legend to fulfil, period. It is of no matter if others support you, or criticise you, ignore or tolerate you. You are doing that because that is your destiny on this earth, and the source of any joy.”
“You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.”
Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories
“You have a picture of life within you, a faith, a challenge, and you were ready for deeds and sufferings and sacrifices, and then you became aware by degrees that the world asked no deeds and no sacrifices of you whatever, and that life is no poem of heroism with heroic parts to play and so on, but a comfortable room where people are quite content with eating and drinking, coffee and knitting, cards and radio music. And whoever wants more and has got it in him - the heroic and the beautiful, and the reverence for the great poets or for the saints - is a fool and a Don Quixote.”
“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.”
“You have a plaster on your head,’ my mother says.
‘Oh!’ I say, flushed with relief. ‘Yes. I walked into a table.’
‘With your head?’
Ah. Good point. ‘Actually, it was a door.’
My mother smiles thinly. ‘Of course, it was.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.”
“You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.”