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“You know villains. They’re all secretly twelve,”
Source: Superheroes Anonymous
“You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.”
“You know we are doomed anyway, right?
Beg your pardon?
No matter what we do, what we archive, what status we have, how much material wealth we acquire, we all die. Some of us in terrible pain whilst we do so… Life is inherently cruel, there is no other way of putting it.”
Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.”
“You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons - incredible weapons." How do you know that? "Uh, well... we looked at the receipts."”
“You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.”
Source: This Beloved Road: A Journey of Revelation and Worship
“You know we can still be friends.”
“I’m counting on it. But tonight, I want more than friendship.”
Source: Sedona Sin
“You know, we can still put that suit to use, though.” I glanced toward the truck and Lock’s face lit up as I closed the distance between us.
“What happened to needing a shower?”
“Showers are overrated,” I whispered, holding his gaze through the visor. “Plus,” I turned my head to look down the hall, “Jay is down there now.”
“That’d be right. Let me just hang up my hat.” He was pulling away when I caught his wrist.
“Nuh-uh. Keep the helmet. I want to be with my firefighter.”
Source: Seduction Squad
“You know we don't have to wait until the end of the night, just to say that something's wrong and maybe nobody's right. We're all victims in a battle, that we never had to fight. It's okay. It's alright. Steady now, we're in this thing together.”
“You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that.”
“You know we have Democratic centrists here to blame for the economic conditions driving this rightwing extremism. So the solution here, you know, is not Hillary Clinton and more of the Clintonism centrist, the centrist Clinton philosophy that is greeding this economic misery.”
“You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.”
“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“You know we’re not the enemy. We’re part of this city, like you, trying to survive in a world that isn’t fair. We shouldn’t be fighting each other! We should be united, fighting the people who’ve really taken what belongs to us all.”
Source: Tyger
“You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.”
“You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that.”
“You know, we walk around and only notice the outside of things, but we never take the time to look on the inside.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“You know, we were in love and caught up in the eddies of a marvellous city. Actually, we felt invisible. We believed no evil could befall us. All the same, it did.”
Source: Providence Point
“You know, we were very overconfident about these institutions and how well designed they are. Then it turned out that a lot of what makes American democracy work happened by, you know, it was really norms rather than laws or a general agreement. You know, that, for example, that the president publishes his tax returns. You know, that wasn't a law, it was just a habit. You know, maybe it's time to make it a law. So thinking carefully about what changes we can make to ensure genuine legitimacy and also to ensure people's feelings and belief in legitimacy, I think that's another important addition to the conversation.”
“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
“You know we're going to control the insurance companies.”
“You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.”
“You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The sun you know the heart of our solar system makes noise. Even interstellar phenomena like black holes. You know people have studied them and a black hole can emit sound in like the range of 20,000 octaves below B flat.”
“You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson
“You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.”
“You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'”
“You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'”
“You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.”
“You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason”
“You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.”
“You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.”
“You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.”
“You know what a hero is - 9 out of 10 times it's someone who's too tired or too hungry or too cold to give a damn - I don't give a damn - I don't give a damn about the consequences, all I know is, the society that has been handed over to us by our ancestors can't possibly be a human society, it's a society of good-looking savages - and I won't sit still on my couch whining about it like a spineless bug either - it's my society, and I'll either turn it into a human one, or perish in the attempt.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.”
Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.”
Source: Prayers for Sale
“You know what a supernova is? It's a dead star. And yet, it is the most beautiful specimen in the universe. Lots of people are supernovas but don't know it, they think that they're dead; they don't know that they're beautiful.”
“You know what a woman's curiosity is.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest
“You know what, Abigail? You’re right—it is selfish. But there’s nothing inherently immature about making a selfish choice. It is hard to put what you know is right for you first, when you know people you love don’t respect your choices. It is hard to say ‘what I want is worthy.’ It is hard to say ‘I know myself and what I need, even if everyone else thinks otherwise.’ Don’t tell me this is immature when it took me months of thinking about it every damn day to make this choice.”
Source: Right of First Refusal
“You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.”
“You know what adulthood is? It's making choices. And if you make the wrong one - there's no going back.”
Source: Goddess Complex
“You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.”
“You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular freaking ice cream instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air and human hope.”
“You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?”
Source: Nadia's Song
“You know what Ames? Come find me when you pull the stick out of your ass. You’re delusional and I’m over it.”
Source: Hear Me Now
“You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.”
“You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.”
“You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.”
“You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?”
“You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid.”