Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You hold within you a system of values and beliefs”
“You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief.”
“You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.”
“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it.”
Source: Monkey Beach
“You honor me by bringing Death to my front door.”
“You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.”
“You honor our humble abode,' said Bean.
'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile.”
“You honor the dead by honoring the living.”
“You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.”
“You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.”
“You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope it's something that can have a long life.”
“You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.”
“You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.”
“You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?”
“You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no way of knowing until the reader reads the book. Actually, the critical response doesn't worry me. I've had very few reviews that have upset me.”
“You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.”
“You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.”
“You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.”
“You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.”
“You hope, yes,
your books will excuse you,
save you from hell:
nevertheless,
without looking sad,
without in any way
seeming to blame
(He doesn't need to,
knowing well
what a lover of art
like yourself pays heed to),
God may reduce you
on Judgment Day
to tears of shame,
reciting by heart
the poems you would
have written, had
your life been good.”
“You hope you can fix it with the personnel that you have. On offense, we are doing some great things, but we did not execute. This group of men that I represent likes to work hard.”
“You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.”
“You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.”
“You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.”
“You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.”
“You humanoids worry about your kids being pushed around by bullies, and rightfully so. But think about this: We had bona fide bulls at my school. Yea, monstrous creatures with huge torsos, gargantuan horns - and when they were pissed - gross stuff oozed out of their gigantic noses.”
Source: Prejudice and the Progeny: Six Lessons for Slaying Intolerance
“You humans are so good at ignoring things. You are almost blind and almost deaf. You look at a tree and see…just a tree, a stiff weed. You don’t see its history, feel the pumping of the sap, hear every insect in the bark, sense the chemistry of the leaves, notice the hundred shades of green, the tiny movements to follow the sun, the subtle growth of wood...”
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
“You humans can be such funny creatures, thinking yourselves kings and gods when you are but some miserly dust in this universe.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“You humans destroyed my life, my family’s life, everything I loved and treasured. It was because of your ancestor that my kind fell. And then, the one thing I could still love in the shadows of the Night Realm was Oliara. When that was taken away from me, I became empty. So do not tell me you love me; even if I could give it back – which would never be given to a human – I could not: I no longer know how to.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Two
“You humans never take time for thought. Only decisions reached in calm can be sure.”
Source: The Great Hunt
“You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!”
Source: Ghost Town
“You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.”
Source: Deathless
“You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. "If I do all those things for you--soothe you, center you, give you strength--then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.”
Source: Claim Me
“You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.”
“You humiliate me with your attitude and actions, but I only do it with words. Be grateful.”
Source: Heaven's Gate
“You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be...”
“You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean.”
“You hunger for tall walls, I hunger for tall humans.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“You hungry?”
Whiplash change of subject, but okay.
“I could eat some food.”
“Appreciate the clarification. I wasn’t sure if you had changed your mind about needing to walk properly.”
I roll my eyes, which prompts him to quickly flick my nipple.
“Ah! What was that for?” I yelp.
“You rolled your eyes.” He shakes his head once. “Bad habit.”
Source: Scratched Surface
“You hunt... Your fellow creatures?" I ask, still in disbelief.
"Of course. A hunt is only as interesting as the prey is clever!”
Source: Four Kings
“You hurt any of us or those we love again and so help me, I won’t stop until I’ve pulled you into so many pieces, you’ll think you’ve been through a grinder. (Fang)”
“You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.”
Source: Wintergirls
“You hurt me more with your silence than your words.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“You hurt my feelings." He shoots me a wounded look. "I wasn't aware that you had any.”
“You hurt nature and the Law of Karma rebounds the same energy back to you. Who gave it to you? You gave it to yourself.”
Source: Lessons from My Garden
“You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.”
“You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.”
“You hurt,too?" When the female nodded, Marissa was stunned. Then a little relieved. "It wasn't all painful. I mean, what led up to it was ... is amazing. Butch makes me... he's just so... the way he touches me, I get... Oh, God, I can't believe I'm talking like this. And I can't explain what it's like with him."
Beth chuckled. "That's all right. I know what you mean."
"Really?"
"Oh, yeah." The queen's dark blue eyes glowed. "I know exactly what you mean.”
Source: Lover Revealed