Y Quotes
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“You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.”
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“You may be theoretically rich but practically poor.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.”
Source: Masquerade
“You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“You may be transferred, enlisted, commissioned, reassigned, or hospitalized - but brand this on your heart - you can never go where God is not.”
Source: Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose
“You may be unable to get the other person or the betrayal out of your mind. The ego prefers to choose one side of a polarity and ignore the other, which helps explain the origin and longevity of obsessive thoughts in which we can focus on only one option. You are not in the control tower. Rather you are challenged to become the landing strip. Simply allow any feelings and thoughts that may safely land or crash on you. They are normal and usually fade with time.”
Source: 亲密关系的重建
“You may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.”
“You may be waiting at the wrong stop, you may have taken the wrong train, you may be in a situation where you did everything wrong, but if you have the reflex to get rid of the mistake quickly, you will quickly get everything right!”
“You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders.”
“You may be whatever you resolve to be.”
“You may be witty, but not satirical.”
“you may be wondering how it was physically possible for us to drink more than we already did, but here is the thing about drinking: one can always drink more, if one is truly committed. It's just a mater of discipline, really.”
Source: City of Girls
“You may be wondering what else I do with my free time. I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy ass watching TV. But also do you, so don't judge.”
Source: The Martian
“You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.”
Source: A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman
“You may be worthy of everything, but none of us deserves anything.”
“You may be wrong, but you may be right.”
“You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.”
Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
“You may believe me I mean you well, I tell you home truths, and there is no surer way than that of knowing who are one’s friends.”
Source: The Ugly Duckling
“You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.”
“You may believe whatever you want; but the most important thing is to update you belief with the truth, with the science! Your dearest belief might be the biggest buncombe ever! Don't be sad! Continue your road with the new truth! Everything changes!”
“You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.”
Source: Oakleaf Bearers (Ranger's Apprentice Book 4)
“You may believe yourselves rid of your headache now, and maybe you are... but you've only done it by cutting off your own heads.”
“You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“You may bend, but you will not be broken.”
“You may blame yourself for not being strong enough to appreciate some unhappy people in spite of their negative emotional offerings toward you. Well, we would never suggest that you be able to look at something you do not want and feel good about it. Instead, look for things that cause you to feel appreciation when you find them-and then the Law Of Attraction will bring you more things like those.”
Source: Manifest Your Desires: 365 Ways to Make Your Dreams a Reality
“You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.”
Source: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence
“You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.”
“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”
“You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel.”
“You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.”
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations
“You may burn the pages but the story still remains.
You may silence words but the feelings still remain.
You may tear the petals but the fragrance still remains...”
“You may burn the pages but the story still remains. You may tear the petals but the fragrance still remains.”
“You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.”
“You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.”
“You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.”
Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
“you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.”
Source: What I Have Gathered
“You may call [Charis] angelic to be for ever trying to please everyone, and being sorry for those she can't please, but I don't! Addle-brained is what I call it!'
'Oh, no!' uttered Charis imploringly.
'Oh, yes!' he retorted. 'Told you so before! If you don't take care, Charis, you'll end by being sorry for yourself! All for the want of a little resolution! What if Mrs Dauntry and Frederica don't like it [a marriage between you and Endymion]? They'll come round! And you needn't look at me as ugly as bull-beef, Endymion, because I'll say what I choose to my own sister!”
Source: Frederica
“You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.”
“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”
“You may call him Ash,” the Queen decided, when I insisted the boy needed a name. “Because that is all that remains.”
Of her kingdom, I knew she meant.
Of her pride.
Of her heart.”
Source: Better in Black
“You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“You may call me whatever you wish, but I'm taking your cake.
-L”
Source: Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout
“You may capture a man's attention with your looks for a moment, but it's your character that holds it for a lifetime.”
Source: Dark Rooms
“You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.”
“You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!”
“You may change the facts or fabricate stories, but that won't change the truth about how evil, horrible, shameless, barbaric, vile, and heartless you are.”
“You may change your destination, you may have a hundred stops along the way, there's a hundred different possibilities, but usually when you get in your car you are thinking, "I am going to go somewhere."”