Y Quotes
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“You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.”
“You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.”
“You meet the wrong people and then you suffocate the right one when you met, as revenge for all the bad experiences you went through”
“You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.”
“You meet those eyes and realize, suddenly, that there’s so little left in you which is capable of fear.”
Source: The Obelisk Gate
“You meet yourself when you start selling.”
“you meeting me
seems like a beautiful
sign that something
magical is going to
happen in life!”
“You mellow too much you ripen and rot.”
“You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.”
Source: Party Girl
“You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.”
Source: Phineas Redux
“You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.”
Source: Twenty Weeks
“You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.”
“You men,' she says. 'You durn men.”
Source: Light in August: a concordance to the novel
“You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.”
“You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.”
“You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.”
“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”
“You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.”
“You merely dream that you roam about. In a few years your stay in India will appear as a dream to you. You will dream some other dream at that time. Do realize that it is not you who moves from dream to dream, but the dreams flow before you and you are the immutable witness. No happening affects your real being-that is the absolute truth.”
“You mess with my sister, you're messing with me!”
Source: Jumping in the Puddles of Life
“You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.”
Source: The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1
“You messed up, Pete'
'Peak,' I said
'Weird name'
'Weird parents”
Source: Peak
“You messed with the wrong white girl, motherfucker!” Tyler shouted.”
“You met me when I was sad, but I'm not a sad person, and I don't want you to like that sad person who wasn't me better than you like me.”
Source: In Other Lands
“You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.”
“You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I’m a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
“You might also understand the difference between force and strength, the former pressing too hard to achieve questionable ends, the latter a deep-seated power of soul. You might notice the difference between ego power and soul power, the former anxious and self-centered. Finally, you might appreciate the paradoxes involved, where being more vulnerable in a comfortable way gives you strength, and when you have some deep strength, you can finally feel vulnerable.”
Source: A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World
“You might argue on utilitarian grounds that the best way for the world to work is for everybody to take care of themselves first. And people have made that argument. But I just think we would be so much better off if we could care for distant others even a little bit more.”
“You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.”
Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.”
“You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.”
“You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.”
“You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.”
Source: The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]
“You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?”
“You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.”
Source: Two-headed woman
“You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.”
Source: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
“You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.”
Source: Memoirs Of General Sherman - 2nd. Edition, Revised And Corrected [Illustrated - 2 Volumes In One]
“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.”
“You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.”
“You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.”
“You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting.”
“You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.”
“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.”
“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.”
“You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.”
“You might as well laugh at yourself,
everyone else is.”
“You might as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents because it's a lot more interesting.”