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“You have not awakened to wakefulness, but to a previous dream. This
dream is enclosed within another, and so on to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path you
must retrace is interminable and you will die before you ever really awake.”
“you have not been / paying attention”
“You have not been called to change the world, but you have been called to change something.”
“You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.”
“You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.”
“You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘‘First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first.”
Source: The Morganville Vampires:
“You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.”
“You have not conquered anyone significant until you conquer yourself.”
“You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.”
“You have not failed until you accept your failure.”
“You have not failed until you quit trying.”
“You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”
Source: Reflections
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”
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“You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.”
Source: Notes of Thought
“You have not had any privacy since the first day you owned your first cell phone. They can track everything. They can hear recordings of anything you have ever said on your cell. And read everything you ever read, and everything you ever typed. And see every location you've ever been to. That's just how cells work. Your privacy is a willful illusion.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.”
“You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.”
“You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“You have not learned to live until you have learned to give”
“You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have given something to someone who will never be in a position to repay you.”
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
“You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.”
“You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead and dull. Marriage takes all surprise and wonder away. Marriage makes you take your wife for granted, your husband for granted. What is the need to look at your wife? She will be there tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and forever. You look at people when you know you may not be able to look at them again. Marriage kills; it makes something tremendously beautiful very ugly.”
“You have not realized yet that both of you are mine, have you?”
Source: The Beast and Me
“You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.”
“You have not seen desperation and helplessness till you have seen a man hopeless in love. Of course, unless you have seen a gamer.”
“You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.”
“You have not studied the histories of ancient times, and perhaps know not the life that breathes in them; a soul of beauty and wisdom which had penetrated my heart of hearts.”
Source: Valperga
“You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.”
“You have not taught until they have learned.”
Source: John Wooden's UCLA Offense
“You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.”
Source: Mystic and Rider
“You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?”
Source: Jane Eyre
“You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.”
“You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.”
“You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.”
“You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.”
“You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value... The baby you hold in your arms will grow as quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.”
“You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.”
“You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most. It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley
“You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“You have nothing to fear.
Anxiety is a friend, not the enemy here.
It's like a warning to keep you safe and sound,
alerting you when there's something important to be found.”
Source: Luna Heartstrong & the Whimsical Wormhole
“You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide”
“You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.”
“You have nothing to lose. You had nothing to begin with.”
“You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.”
Source: Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
“You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.”
“You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.”
“You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)