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“You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.”
“You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“You may travel the whole world, yet not feel one with it. It's not about moving your feet, it's about moving your mind.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“You may treat the past and future as realities, but they are only realities in your memory and imagination. Only the present exists.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“You may trode me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I'll rise.”
“You may trust the Lord too little, but you can never trust Him too much.”
“You may try to copy me, but it won't work. No, not at all.”
“You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play”
Source: Little Women
“You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.”
“You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes.”
Source: Principia Humanitas
“You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.”
“You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.”
Source: A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland
“You may use a shopping cart to get your groceries, but I just use regular clothes. That way all my items are FREE.”
Source: I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge
“You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the truth has no twin.”
“You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.”
“You may veil him...But you can't stop him from shining.
The one with a fire in his heart can be hidden,
But not forbidden
No matter how vehemently you suppress
The hero will always succeed to impress.
It might take a little long till the cloud disappears
But he'll own the stage forever once he appears.”
“You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.”
Source: Stranger Things Happen
“You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.”
“You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.”
“You may wander all over in the world. If no one can seize your chit, then you are free. I have seen for many years, that no one can seize my mind. so then ‘I’ realized my ‘own self’, that I have become completely free.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“You may want me now, but how can we possibly have a future together? She wrapped her arms around herself in complete grief. "Time is very different for each of us. It might have always been me, but it can't possibly always be me, can it?"
-Wraith to Fang, Chapter 5”
Source: Revived
“You may want the alpha, but the alpha has his pick.”
“You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.”
“You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field.”
“You may want to sit with the following question: How much am I identifying with a job title rather than what I intuitively know is my work to share with the world?”
Source: Work That Matters: Create a Livelihood That Reflects Your Core Intention
“You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It's time you learned some respect!'
'It's time you earned it,' said Harry.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“You may wear your virtues as a crown,
As you walk through life serenely,
And grace your simple rustic gown
With a beauty more than queenly.
Though only one for you shall care,
One only speak your praises;
And you never wear in your shining hair,
A richer flower than daisies.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary
“You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.”
Source: Flying
“You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.”
“You may well ask: when the bubble finally burst, why did we not let the bankers crash and burn? Why weren't they held accountable for their absurd debts? For two reasons.
First because the payment system - the simple means of transferring money from one account to another and on which every transaction relies - is monopolised by the very same bankers who were making the bets. Imagine having gifted your arteries and veins to a gambler. The moment he loses big at the casino, he can blackmail you for anything you have simply by threatening to cut off your circulation.
Second, because the financiers' gambles contained deep inside the title deeds to the houses of the majority. A full-scale financial market collapse could therefore lead to mass homelessness and a complete breakdown in the social contract.
Don't be surprised that the high and mighty financiers of Wall Street would bother financialising the modest homes of poor people. Having borrowed as much as they could off banks and rich clients in order to place their crazy bets, they craved more since the more they bet, the more they made.
So they created more debt from scratch to use as raw materials for more bets. How? By lending to impecunious blue collar worker who dreamed of the security of one day owning their own home.
What if these little people could not actually afford their mortgage in the medium term? In contrast to bankers of old, the Jills and the Jacks who actually leant them the money did not care if the repayments were made because they never intended to collect. Instead, having granted the mortgage, they put it into their computerised grinder, chopped it up literally into tiny pieces of debt and repackaged them into one of their labyrinthine derivatives which they would then sell at a profit.
By the time the poor homeowner had defaulted and their home was repossessed, the financier who granted the loan in the first place had long since moved on.”
Source: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
“You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.”
Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems
“You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.”
“You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.”
Source: Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul
“You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.”
“You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1953-1955 : What are you seeking?
“You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: Book of Days
“You may wish to capture a wild thing as you covet their unbreakable spirit, but as much as you may wish to tame a wild thing, a wild thing, who may grow to love you, will always resist and will do anything, at any cost, even if it means hurting you, to break free. Be careful when playing with a wild thing.”
“You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.”
Source: This Song Will Save Your Life
“You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.”
“You may wonder why so many of my quotes - and all my work - is about love, compassion and inner peace? Because life is nothing, empty, bereft without these things.”
“You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it?
How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?
The answer lies in the return.
You will not come back to the 'same old thing.
What you return to has changed because you have changed.
Your perceptions will be altered.
You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind.
The river has been flowing while you were gone.
Now it does not look like the same river.”
“You may wonder: how do I overcome the common 'Cute/Insane Conundrum,' as it occurs in men ... Yes, it's a fact - any man who seems cute, fabulous, and incredible to you will, of course, turn out to be insane.”
“You may work for Lyre but you’re the worst liar I know.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“You may work for someone and give your time, but the expertise, growth, and wisdom you gain are yours alone.”
“You may work with 100% capacity every day and may not be seen by anybody for recommendation. This does not mean you should give up! The day you will decide to work at 40% may be the day you'll be seen by the person who is meant to recommend you for higher profile opportunities!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes