Y Quotes
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“You have two lives in you, Alice. The one you know, and another one. One that has been waiting for you for a very long time. They have nothing in common, apart from you.”
Source: 伊斯坦布尔假期
“You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.”
Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
“You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'”
“You have two parties that are funded by deep corporate interests, largely overlapping, that you begin to see a convergence. You have the Republican intelligentsia and the Republican spokespeople, and 50 GOP security figures who have all come into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. Not to mention Mitt Romney, who has defected from [Donald] Trump, although it's not clear where his vote is going to be. But everyone from John Negroponte to Meg Whitman have all declared allegiance to Hillary. And Hillary has likewise, very formally opened the door to encouraging Republicans to come in.”
“You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.”
“You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.”
“You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.”
“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?”
Source: The Stone Heart
“You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.”
“You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?”
“You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.”
“You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.”
“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.”
Source: Queen of the Golden Age: the fabulous story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt
“You have unique gifts to offer the world”
“You have unlimited resources, begin your work!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.”
“You have value and you deserve better.”
“You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.”
“You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.”
“You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.”
“You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.”
“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
Source: Aleph and other stories
“You have walked all the paths and then you say your way is the best way? If you haven't walked all the paths, don't talk about your way being the best way!”
“You have walked dozens, hundreds of roads throughout your life! No matter how much you walk, there will always be roads you've never walked on, and you know, my friend, you probably won't be at peace when you hear this: Maybe one of those roads you've never walked is really the road you've always been looking for!”
“You have walked in chains through the streets of this ancient city, amidst its smog and smoke and the soot caked upon its walls.”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“You have walked through fire and survived; now you will rise from the ashes and thrive.”
“You have wasted your life on hatred and revenge. What good is life if there is no joy or creative purpose? You would have been better off living five years as a human than five hundred as a monster.”
Source: Cirque Du Freak: Killers of the Dawn, Vol. 9
“You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like yes/no answers that can be as complex as you want, and then you have strong A.I., which is basically like a human, like something that can think up a thought that's never been thought up or paint a painting or write a poem.”
“You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.”
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic
“You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.”
Source: The Iron Gates: A Psychological Novel
“You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You are unique; so are others!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You have witchcraft in your lips”
“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.”
“You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.”
Source: The Law of Success
“You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.”
“You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.”
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
“You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“You have witnessed the rebirth of an old war, the rekindling of a fire that once consumed nations like parched grass. The blame may not be yours, but you held the spark that set the flame. It is young and growing. Maybe, maybe it may still be quenched, so long as the Almighty bathes us in courage and luck and we do not rest and we do not tire and we do not listen to our own pain.”
Source: Empire of Bones
“You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.”
“You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.”
“You have work at being a couple.”
“You have worked hard, you have produced a lot, now you are tired, rest now, the things you have created will walk even when you are not around, they will continue to give the world what you want to give to the world!”
“You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The family peace of loving plainly.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You have worked to build me what I asked for all the days of our lives. Even when the task seemed impossible, even when it would have been easier to give it up, you did not, but kept on going. You have kept me warm in winter, and cool in summer. You have laughed with me, and you have cried. You have given me children who are almost, but not quite, my greatest joy.
For the greatest joy of all is the way you held my wish in the center of your heart thorough all the days of our lives. That is where the room that you have built for me lies. Just as the room I built for you lies within mine. And in this way have all our wishes been granted. Together, we have made ourselves a home.”
Source: Golden
“You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as a symptom of a greater obsession that can only be extinguished by your merciful hand.”
“You have yet to glimpse my reign, but it is not a crown you should fear falling to me.
I will rain down the stars so you may never dream upon them. I will rain down Phoenixfyre to burn all you build to ash and I will rain down the might of the Ashfyre name to avenge the bloodline you betrayed. You are staring into the face of your deepest fear Malin, for when I am finished with you, - her chest heaved with a promise so final, words that struck like a declaration from the Gods- you will all yield to me.”
Source: A Sword from the Embers
“You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.”