Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.”
“You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.”
“You may be on land, yet not in a garden.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“You may be on the level of thinking outside the box, moving up a level is realizing What Box?.”
“You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you.
Or you may think that if you never speak up you’ll avoid being rejected. Both these fears no longer apply to you today as an adult.
If you never reach out for help, you will continue to deprive yourself.”
Source: The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Therapeutic 7-Step Self-Help Program for Men and Women, Including How to Choose a Therapist and Find a Support Group
“You may be outnumbered by your problems and facing hopeless circumstances, but God has a divine plan to bring you into restoration - and you don’t have to suffer any casualties.”
Source: The New Vintage Family: A Vintage Look for the Modern-Day Family
“You may be paralyzed from the neck down, you may have itchy skin and only one good eye, you may wake up every day still paralyzed, still in this nursing home, you may not be able to feed, bathe, or brush your teeth or wipe your butt or walk or dance or drive a car or take a shower or do one thing you want to do, including scratching your nose but you can't die, because everyone else has and you're all I've got.”
“You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness
“You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.”
“You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.”
“You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe”
Source: The Bet
“You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.”
“You may be quite surprised that the most potential causes of energy blockage are overthinking and negative emotions. These don’t only block your energy channels but also weaken your energy level.”
Source: Astral Projection: The Out-of-Body Experience Extremely Simplified
“You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.”
Source: Between the Lines
“You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti
“You may be right after all," I said to him in the kitchen. "You may be right, but you'll never win."
"I think the opposite," he smiled, stirring the pot from which a wonderful aroma of rogan josh arose. "We may turn out to be wrong, but we have already won.”
Source: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You’ll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don’t, I’m afraid they will not respect you as much.”
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.”
“you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for”
“You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.”
“You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had to try very hard not to blush. “How did that happen?” Will made an airy gesture with his hand. “I was drunk…” “Nonsense. You were never really drunk.” “On the contrary—in order to learn how to pretend to be inebriated, once must become inebriated at least once, as a reference point. Six-Fingered Nigel had been at the mulled cider—“ “You can’t mean there’s truly a Six-Fingered Nigel?”
“You may be safe, but I am free.' Take advantage of the freedom that comes with your youth. Inhale life, exhale fire, and embrace the late, sleepless nights, because that's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it would be. Make the most of those moments," I said forcefully. "And in the coming years people will tell you that you're too young to change the world. I'm here to tell you, that's fucking bullshit.”
Source: The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
“You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (Six Volumes - Complete Edition): New Thought Empowerment - From the Author of Thoughts are Things, The God in You, Gift of Spirit and The Gift of Understanding
“You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.”
“You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't just have to walk around and play golf or do nothing... It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.”
“You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.”
“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”
Source: What to Listen For in Music
“You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.”
“You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.”
“You may be successful in changing everything outside me but you will never be successful in changing anything inside me”
“You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.”
Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II
“You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.”
“You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity”
“You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.”
“You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.”
Source: Strictly personal
“You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.”
Source: Phaedo: Translated, with Introd., Notes, and Appendices
“You may be surprised how life begins to unfold when you quietly trust your worth.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.”
“You may be surprised to find out that people who want tranquility most are those who are willing to fight and die for peace.”
Source: Definitive Nobody, Derek Barley
“You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.”
“You may be surprised to learn that, in our law, although the fetus is currently without the right to life, it does have some rights. For instance, under civil law, the unborn child has the right to inherit part of his father's estate should his father die before he is born, and he has the right to sue his Mother, or a doctor, for injuiries sustained while in the womb.”
“You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.”
“You may be tall; you may be short. You may be a black; you may be a white. One more thing to keep behind your mind is that you "your purpose is unique". Anyone who is thinks he is clever enough will mess up when he/she wears your shoes; it won't fit!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“You may be tempted to regret being born when you are made to watch the videos of just what you will go through to achieve your dreams... But you are highly likely to wish you can live and live again and again if the size of your purposeful achievements is shown to you! Live on!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“you may be the boy who lost almost everything because of his mistakes and the brokenness of other people that he couldn't control, but you are also the boy who chose not to run. Who returned to his broken Never Never Land and had fought to bring light to this place, even when the shadows nearly drowned it all. You love Neverland more than anyone could, and I love you for it.”
Source: Shadow
“You may be the change and light needed by others, to shine on their path.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“You may be the light at the end of someone's tunnel. Allow yourself to be it.”
“You may be the most beautiful woman on planet earth, but I will not change my principles for you.”