Y Quotes
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“You lock your house and go out for a week. When you return, everything seems strange inside the house. The house grows in your absence! Everything in the universe is sitting on Time and continuously growing, with or without you.
You are working hard on a problem, trying to conceive a solution. Don’t make it an ego issue. Let it alone for some time. Let it grow without you. Let it conceive without you. When you return to it, you will be pleasantly surprised to find the solution curled beside it like a baby. 30”
“You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.”
Source: Facing Your Giants: A David and Goliath Story for Everyday People
“You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.”
“You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.”
“You look about as trapped as a piglet at a baby back ribs cookoff.”
“You look absolutely gorgeous, just like this, bathing in the blood of your enemy.”
Source: Sweet Lies and Silent Vows
“You look absurd in that outfit."
"Absurdly dashing, I agree.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.”
“You look across this country people are fed up with Washington. This [2016] election was the American people saying, enough already with the corruption in Washington and it's both parties.”
“You look after yourself. You believe in God. And if people want to drag you down, you fight that, and you keep on fighting.”
“You look all frail and breakable, but you're really a violent little thing, aren't you?”
Source: Fourth Wing
“You look... amazing!"
And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black. The kind of deep, soft black that you fall into. A simple sleeveless dress from Whistles, the highest of Jimmy Choos, a pair of stunning uncut amethyst earrings. And please don't ask how much it all cost, because that's irrelevant. This is investment shopping. The biggest investment of my life.
I haven't eaten anything all day so I'm nice and thin and for once my hair has fallen perfectly into shape. I look... well, I've never looked better in my life.
But of course, looks are only part of the package, aren't they?”
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic
“You look amazing.”
“Thank you. You look pretty good.” Understatement.
“Oh this old thing? Shucks,” he said.
“Dork.”
“Goddess.”
Source: My Favorite Mistake
“You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant:
“You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.”
Source: Every Last Word
“You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.”
“You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.”
“You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.”
“You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.”
“You look as lonely and out of place as I feel.”
Source: The House Witch
“You look as scary as a buttered muffin.”
Source: Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2
“You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.”
“You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.”
“You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before eight; you know the number of hours you've got after eight. You can now measure your time to see if you can get done a number of things you've got to get done. History serves the same purpose.”
“You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke”
“You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.”
“You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.”
“You look at a neighborhood like this and see a slum. I see the garden I was meant to tend.”
Source: Carved in Stone
“You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?”
“You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.”
Source: Les Misérables
“You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.”
“You look at all the sporting companies out there. I won't name names, but we know who they are. Good brands and logos and things like that, and they have to start catering to real women. Even in how their sports apparel is designed, and the commercials - you want to look at a commercial and see yourself.”
“You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.”
“You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!”
“You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.”
“You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.”
“You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.”
“You look at Donald Trump and Ben Carson and you can see the people supporting them are small donors, the people I always call the ones who make the country work. Certainly not rich corporate CEO types, and these are not people that expect some sort of issue oriented payback. They're donating because of enthusiasm, ideas. The corporate donors are donating 'cause they want policy in return.”
“You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.”
“You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.”
“You look at her like shes the stars and the moon, like rain at the end of a long summer drought.”
Source: These Hollow Vows
“You look at him as if he's your custom-made god that you can't survive without worshipping at his altar.”
Source: Empire of Desire
“You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.”
Source: Creating a sense of place
“You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to critical acclaim around the world. He won't put more then 5 or 10 percent computer imagery in his movies. It's disappointing to me. It's a silly choice that some studios made to move out of animation. It's part of the unfortuneate preconception that I think the public has going into see animation.”
“You look at Libya, and you go, "Jesus, why the hell did we do that?" That's beyond stupid. That's so irresponsible and dangerous for our national security and frankly for the national security of Europe because you go and you look at where a lot of these refugees are coming out of, they're coming out of Misrata and Tripoli.”
“You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.”
“You look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.”
“you look at me and cry
everything hurts
i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal”
Source: Milk and honey