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“You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.”
“You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”
Source: Lock and Key
“You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it more than it will bear. But as to self — that's different. Your mechanism may be bent, Your carbureter gone to grass, Your engine just a rusty mass. Your wheels may wobble and your cogs Be handed over to the dogs, And on you skip, and skid, and slide, Without a thought of things inside. What fools indeed we mortals are To lavish care upon a Car, With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!”
Source: The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day
“You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.”
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight," he would say. “I
saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license
plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight?
Amazing!”His point, of course, was that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful.
So it is possible that the events and conditions that led to the rise of life on Earth are not
quite as extraordinary as we like to think. Still, they were extraordinary enough, and one thing
is certain: they will have to do until we find some better.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“You know the most beautiful part of Love?
You can Never Ever wish them harm no matter how much hurt they threw your way.
How can you, when You have prayed for them for days after days, when you have literally begged God for their well-being. No, you can ask the same God to let you forget them, but deep inside even in that prayer, you would send them Hope, you would send them Love.
You can Never allow yourself to hear anything negative, even minutely disgraceful about them, no matter how many insults they might have pulled your way. No, you can silently walk away, but you would never want to hear anything wrong being said about them, in fact you would stand first to leave the room when such a thing happen or maybe fight fiercely for them simply because your heart wouldn't allow it no matter how much your mind might argue otherwise.
And even when your Hurt runs deep, even when the wounds won't ever stop bleeding, even when you might never have received even a fraction of what you gave, you would still give in a way that is beyond any logic, you would give in the virtue of Grace and Dignity in knowing that Love can Never be turned in Hate, yes when you Love someone Immensely, it might sometimes turn into Hate, but when You Loved Someone with all the Hopes and Dreams of a Home, even when the Home breaks, you still hold on to the foundations with a Grace that Only God Understands.
That's the biggest burden and yet the most powerful beauty of Love.”
“You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here?”
Source: Sonora
“You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.”
“You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.”
“You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.”
“You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have”
“You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.”
“You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.”
“You know the old joke, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out.”
“You know: the old plastic-bag-up-the-fanny routine. Do it when they’re on the blob and the sniffer dogs don’t smell it. An’ even if they do smell some-thin’ everyone’s too fuckin’ embarrassed to say anything.”
Source: Cold Granite
“You know the old Russian proverb, Allon. What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine.”
Source: The Cellist
“You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.”
“You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".”
“You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.”
“You know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl.”
“You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.”
“You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.”
“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.”
Source: Bill Cosby on Fatherhood
“You know the only real way to respect people whose lives are over? [...]
How [...]
You prove to them that you aren't wasting yours.”
Source: Thistlefoot
“You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.”
Source: Hearts and Minds
“You know the only thing for me, obviously the routine was completely different, but I had plenty of time getting loose. I threw enough pitches, took my time. Tried to time it out as best I could.”
“You know the only thing happier than a three-legged dog? A four-legged dog.”
“You know, the original name for a merhorse was 'hippocampus,' but that fell out of favor because it's the same word as a part of the brain. Also, it sounds too much like hippopotamus, which isn't a similar animal at all." She had never seen a hippopotamus, though she'd read about them. "Did you know that hippopotamus secrete a red oil that keeps their skin dry and protects them from the sun?”
Source: The Spellshop
“You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.”
“You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t.”
Source: Break It Down: Stories
“You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.”
“You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.”
“You know the phrase ‘hard to get’?” K.T. asks.
“Yeah.”
“Forget hard to get. Chasing Mari would be like Mission: Impossible.”
Source: Sing Sweet Nightingale
“You know the police love to steal out of peoples wallets!”
“You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.”
Source: Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?” I asked as I closed the book’s cover and headed for the door. “They always end up dead.”
Source: Siege and Storm
“You know the problem with this place?' I tug my arm back again, but he holds fast. 'Besides you touching things that don't belong to you?' My eyes narrow on him.
'I'm sure you're going to tell me.' My stomach flutters as his thumb brushes my pulse and he releases my wrist.
I answer before I can think better of it. 'Hope.'
'Hope?' He tips his head closer to mine as if he wasn't sure he heard me right.
'Hope.' I nod. 'Someone like you would never get it, but I knew coming here was a death sentence. It didn't matter that I've been trained my entire life to enter the Scribe Quadrant; when General Sorrengail gives an order, you can't exactly ignore it.' Gods, why am I running off at the mouth to this man? What's the worst he'll do? Kill you?
'Sure you can.' He shrugs. 'You just might not like the consequences.'
I roll my eyes and to my utter embarrassment, instead of pulling away now that I'm free, I lean in just a little, like I can siphon off some of his strength. He certainly has enough to spare.
'I knew what the odds were, and I came anyway, concentrating on that tiny percentage of chance that I would live. And then I make it almost two months and I get...' I shake my head, clenching my jaw. 'Hopeful.' The word tastes sour.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.”
Source: North and South
“You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.”
Source: All this and Heaven too
“You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.”
“You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.”
“You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.”
Source: Safe Haven
“You know the real meaning of celebrating a birthday if you remember the sacrifice of giving birth by your mother”
“You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war.”
“You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them”
“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.”
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single....brilliant. Perhaps the most...brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.”
“You know the Romans were fond of bloodshed. North Africa was one of many places where the Roman Empire had its arenas. It was their amphitheatre which, with the passage of time, had enlarged with the vanishing of many rocks. But, thank God, man has changed and, after six hundred years, that bloody sport has ended.”
Source: Johnny Fracture
“You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that's how long it will take your money to double.”