Y Quotes
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“You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!”
Source: JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“You have never loved. That means your mind and your heart were preoccupied with other things, never awakening love within. You only create apparitions and give them pretty names. Your whole life until now you’ve been chasing apparitions, naming apparitions, interpreting apparitions, passing on and imposing apparitions. You have been too busy with them to ever love anyone or anything.” She paused once again, providing an air. “Merkaba, breathe… and understand. The complete absence of love is unforgivable.”
Source: Weird Genius: The Story of Your Ankh
“You have never met someone who has worked too hard on the right thing.”
Source: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy's Demise
“You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.”
“You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. With George Bush, that charge would never stick.”
“You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty, strange. In their jaws you are carried so effortlessly, with such great care that you think it will never end, you long for it not to end, and then you wake and know that, indeed, they have not brought you back.”
“You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.”
Source: The Belovd Vagabond
“You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?”
Source: Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71
“You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”
Source: Gates Of Fire
“You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”
Source: Gates Of Fire
“You have never worried me, daughter. You have only disappointed.”
Source: Raybearer
“You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.”
Source: The Hobbit
“You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.”
“You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.”
“You have no business until you have customers.”
“You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.”
“You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.”
“You have no character to even begin to understand what a true gentleman is! You are a disgrace to the sacred name of marriage!”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“You have no choice about how you feel about this. Your only choice is whether to feel it now or later." Although her comment helped a little at first, during the next twenty-five years I would keep discovering that how much I was able to feel, or not, and when, was not a matter of choice.”
Source: Why Religion? A Personal Story
“You have no choice about what gets poured into your cup, but you have a choice as to what you accept and believe.”
Source: Empty Your Cup: Why We Have Low Self-Esteem and How Mindfulness Can Help
“You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.”
“You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.”
“You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.”
“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”
“You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.”
“You have no clue," he whispered.
"No clue about what?" I whispered back.
"What you handed me last night."
I took in a deep breath and asked softly, "What did I hand you, honey?"
"What's lyin' in that bed."
That was when I stopped breathing.
"I claimed it," he went on. "But last night you gave it to me. Gift's given, no takin' it back. You get that, Tyra?"
"I think so," I whispered.
"Get that, baby, it's important.”
Source: Motorcycle Man
“You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.”
“You have no control of uncertainties! You can only control your life and your reaction to any event. May you find grace for patient endurance.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.”
Source: The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential
“You have no control over
how your story begins or ends.
But by now, you should know that
all things have an ending.
Every spark returns to darkness.
Every sound returns to silence.
And every flower returns to sleep
with the earth.
The journey of the sun
and moon is predictable.
But yours,
is your ultimate
ART.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate
art.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.”
“You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.”
“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
“You have no control over your cat! You can't say to your cat, "Cat, heel! Stay! Wait! Lie down! Roll over!" 'Cause the cat's just gonna be sitting there going, "Interesting words ... have you finished?" While you're shouting all this to your cat, your dog's next to you, going ... [mimes obeying all commands] "What the hell are you doing? I'm talking to the cat!" "Oh, I'm sorry!"”
“You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your growth and development! Go, grow towards impact directions!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death; the crown of flowers I will never wear at my wedding." He knelt on one knee before me. "The little house I would have had of my own, to furnish and clean. That, too, is part of my dower." "I will give you the world for your footstool," he said. "And most precious of all, I give you the wee baby I will never hold in my arms.”
“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
“You have no enemy until you make one.”
“You have no excuse to give... Jonah prayed fervently even in the belly of the shark! Environment is not a barrier!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“You have no finesse,” a gambler at the Silver Garter once said to him. “No technique.”
“Sure I do,” Kaz had responded. “I practice the art of ‘pull his shirt over his head and punch till you see blood.”
Source: Six of Crows
“You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.”
“You have no idea
How much you do for mankind
When you love God unconditionally
Even for a fleeting moment.”
“You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last present you gave me was a stick.” “You wanted a weapon.” “It was a stick.” “It had a bow on it.” “It was a stick.” “I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant:
“You have no idea how badly I want to kiss you, Ana. Would you let me if I tried?”
Source: Grease Monkey
“You have no idea how badly I wish you could see my life. Understand it. See me."
"Across the thousands of miles you've always put between us?”
Source: Recipe for Persuasion