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“You must not let me out,' it warned him gently, as it saw his eyes rest on the lock.
'If you release me now that I know my nature, I could not help but unmake the enchantment of the mirrors. You see, they are tame now and they show only what people want and need to see in them. The wildness of them is bound up in my form, though I did not know it for a long time. If I were uncaged, I could not help but tear at the enchantment until I was unnamed. Then I would fly into all of the mirrors and windows and into shining footpaths after rain. The mirrors would become wild and they would be absolutely, utterly truthful. Everything would be seen for what it truly was. My laughter would greet every lie and every pretense. It would rumble like a volcano under the smooth surface of everything. You can imagine the chaos it would cause here, for those who dwell in the greylands do so because the mirrors are tamed. If I were free, people would come to be afraid of them. They would cease to believe in their reflections and eventually they would no longer believe in themselves. No, laughter must remain caged here.”
Source: Greylands
“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.”
“You must not let your opponent know how you feel.”
“You must not let yourself be diverted out of your solitude by the fact that something in you wants to escape from it.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?”
“You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.”
“You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.”
Source: Bossypants
“You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.”
“You must not lose faith, child. No matter what. Do not doubt God or his choosing of you. He knows infinitely more than we can imagine.”
Source: The Girl of Fire and Thorns
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“You must not love them. It is easy to love power because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness. But the gods were monsters. Do not even love their memory. The gods are dead.”
Source: Deeplight
“You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
“You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.”
“You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.”
Source: Letters of T. S. Eliot: 1898-1922
“You must not only focus on the consumer, but also on what it does to you internally - getting people aligned to the strategic mission of the company - what it does to the suppliers, governments, all your stakeholders.”
“You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit”
“You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.”
“You must not only pray and fast, but read and mediate on word of God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.”
Source: Everyone's Mark Twain
“You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”
“You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.”
“You must not protect the dead; you must revive it!”
“You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.”
“You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.”
“You must not resist life when it becomes inconvenient to live. You cannot outrun fear. You should not ignore pain. You will not outlive death.”
Source: All This Twisted Glory
“You must not resist life when it becomes inconvenient to live. You cannot outrun fear. You should not ignore pain. You will not outlive death...You spent three hours in a state of distress focused solely on one emotion, hoping to discard all those from your life as if your discomforts might expire with them. But life cannot be experienced one emotion at a time. It is a tapestry of sensation, a braided rope of feeling. We must allow for reflection even when we suffer. We must reach for compassion even when we triumph. If you spend your days waiting for your sorrows to end so that you might finally live” – he shook his head – “you will die an impatient man.”
Source: All This Twisted Glory
“You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.”
“You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she can do; and nobody knows; not even Sir Roderick Murchison, or Professor Huxley, or Mr. Darwin, or Professor Faraday, or Mr. Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect. They are very wise men; and you must listen respectfully to all they say: but even if they should say, which I am sure they never would, 'That cannot exist. That is contrary to nature,' you must wait a little, and see; for perhaps even they may be wrong.”
Source: The Water-Babies
“You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel a great irritation you must hold your breath; if a sneeze still insists upon making its way you must oppose it keeping your teeth grinding together; if the violence of the pulse breaks some blood-vessel you must break the blood-vessel -- but not sneeze.”
Source: Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay: Volume 2: Edited by Her Niece
“You must not suppose that I would like you to profess religion without possessing it. A hypocrite is in my opinion one of the most detestable of beings. my opinion is, that every one should honestly and carefully investigate the Bible; and if he can believe it to be the word of God, to follow its teachings." - Brevet Major Thomas J. Jackson (1 March 1851)”
Source: Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
“You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.”
Source: The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby
“You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'”
Source: The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic
“You must not think
That we are made of stuff so fat and dull
That we can let our beard be shook with danger
And think it pastime.”
Source: Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon
“You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on.”
Source: Wolves of the Beyond
“You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.”
Source: Light, Gesture, and Color
“You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.”
“You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.”
“You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”
Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed
“You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.”
“You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.”
Source: Power Through Constructive Thinking
“You must not underemphasize the importance of putting food in you mouth and a roof over your head. Start with the basics.”
“you must not use wood to put out the fire.”
“You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting.”
Source: Just One Day
“you must not worry if they do not yet exist, because that does not mean they will not exist later. And I say to you that God wishes them to be, and certainly they already are in His mind, even if my friend from Occam denies that ideas exist in such a way; and I do not say this because we can determine the divine nature but precisely because we cannot set any limit to it.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.”