Y Quotes
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“You must be more convinced and dedicated to the integrity of the word of God which is what is right.”
“You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God.”
“You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.”
“You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.”
“You must be on your toes constantly, yet be relaxed.”
“You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.”
Source: Light, Gesture, and Color
“You must be Pain in the Nick.” – Dev “Huh?” – Nick “Don’t wet your pets. Just a figure of speech. Your mom’s been talking about you all day, boy. You are her favorite topic.” – Dev “Well, I try hard not to be her favorite hemorrhoid.” – Nick”
“You must be particularly kind to people. Other kids can act like monsters, but not you.”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.”
“You must be patient with me, dear Cae, as I learn to inhabit myself.”
Source: A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
“You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.”
Source: The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Volume IX: Littlemore and the Parting of Friends May 1842-October 1843
“You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents!”
“You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business -- that takes a lot of audacity.”
“You must be prepared and know the
reason why you dance.”
Source: Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography
“You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.”
Source: Triumph and Tragedy
“You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.”
“You must be prepared to Take Risks and define your own experience- without Controlling any outcome. Paradoxically, you must also accept that there's a major part of your journey that is dependent on Fate, and the Will of Your Creator.”
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“You must be present to win.”
“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.”
“You must be quicker to strike and quicker when you do. You must be tougher and cleverer, you must always look to attack, and you must fight without honour, without conscience, without pity.”
Source: Half the World
“You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it. You cannot force you to do it. Everything you think, say, and do until that happens is just preparation. So love yourself right now. Honor yourself. Keep talking to yourself. Keep thinking ready thoughts. In the meantime, try to remember you will not be ready until you are ready.”
“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
“You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.”
“You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.”
“You must be ready to take all your responsibilities upon your head, instead of relying upon someone else to do all the dirty work for you.”
Source: Sinless
“You must be realistic about the good and the bad in life or you will never be motivated to try new things, explore ideas and concepts.”
“You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.”
“You must be respectable, if you will be respected.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.”
“You must be Sara." Lucas extended his hand.
Sara slipped her hand into Lucas's. "That's me. And you are?"
"Lucas Parker, Kylie's boyfriend."
Boyfriend? Kylie's breath caught. The water slipping down her throat went down the wrong pipe. She started coughing so hard, the sound bounced around the high beams of the dining hall. If that wasn't bad enough, her mom, who'd been sipping on a diet soda, did the same thing.
Crap! If there was one person in the dining hall who hadn't already stared at them, they did now.”
Source: Taken at Dusk
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.”
“You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.”
“You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.”
“You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.”
Source: Pilgrim to Poland
“You must be stupid,” he whispers, “or suicidal.”
I grin. “Call me audacious.”
Source: Pearl of Meissa
“you must be stupid , if you think that i'm stupid enough, to believe your stupidness stupidity .”
“You must be sure - and I mean absolutely positive - that you have the willpower to pay off those credit cards and not use them again.”
“You must be sure that God is behind your vision”
“You must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God.”
Source: Scientific Christian Mental Practice
“You must be taught to love me. Human beings must be taught to love
silence and darkness.”
Source: The Wild Iris
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
Source: Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes
“You must be the brother. I hope so, I'm wearing his pants.”
Source: Night Play
“You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.”
“You must be the Italian cow now sharing my last name." He looked her up and down with disgust. As I stood, Mel glared, telling me to back the fuck down or else.
She moved from behind the desk and stood directly in front of his face, causing his bodyguards to step forward as well.
"Old man, you're in my house. That makes you a fucking guest. I don't owe you shit and you will respect me if you want my respect. My name is Melody. Mrs. Callahan if it suits you, but..." She leaned in until their noses were almost touching. She was shorter, but the black heels helped. "If you even call me a cow again I will kill you painfully slow. I don't care how many motherfucking body guards you have."
Two of his bodyguards drew their guns and the last had a knife hidden in his sleeve.
Shit. I thought as she pulled her gun. Declan and Neal were already backing her up. My father just rolled his eyes and took my mother into the corner, all while drinking his brandy. This was ridiculous.
"Lower your weapons," Grandfather said as he glared into her eyes. "The Italian cow..."
The moment he said it, three bullets went flying into them. One in the chest, one in the wrist and the other the knee; they all went down like cards. You don't out gun Mel.
"What the fuck? Where did she pull the gun out from?" Neal whispered. "I swear, she's a motherfucking ninja.”
Source: The Untouchables
“You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.”
“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”