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“You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.”
“You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.”
“You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.”
“You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.”
“You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.”
“You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.”
“You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.”
“You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.”
“You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.”
“You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.”
“you mustn't rely on your flowers to make your garden attractive. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use of evergreen plants so that the garden is always clothed, no matter what time of year. Flowers are an added delight, but a good garden is the garden you enjoy looking at even in the depths of winter.”
“You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.”
“You mustn't take any award so seriously.”
“You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.”
“You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.”
Source: Contact
“You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.”
“You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)
“You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.”
“You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
Source: E. E. Cummings: A Life
“You mustn’t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they’re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.”
“You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.”
“You, my child, will marry well. More than once." (...) The lady retrieved the cards and shuffled them back together into one stack in an attitude of dismissal.
Taking this as a sign her fortune was complete, Preshea stood. Looking particularly pleased with life, she passed over a few coins and gave Madame Spetuna a nice curtsy.
Mademoiselle Geraldine was fanning herself. "Oh, dear, oh, dear, Miss Buss. Let us hope it is widowhood and not" - she whispered the next word - "divorce that leads to your multiple marriages."
Preshea sat and sipped from a china cup. "I shouldn't worry, Headmistress. I am tolerably certain it will be widowhood.”
Source: Curtsies & Conspiracies
“You, my darling, are magnificent beyond anything I could have ever imagined,”
Source: Bride of the Fae Prince
“You, my dear, are a child of God. Let you honor the creation that you are, equally to the beauty of a sunset or a newborn baby or a beautiful vista. You are glorious.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“You, my dear, are a creature of the night, you are a vampire.”
Source: Love Sucks
“You, my dear Rodion Romanovich (excuse an old man), are still a young man, in your first youth, so to speak, and therefore you esteem the human intellect above all things, like all young people. Abstract reasoning and the play of wit tempt you astray.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“You, my fellow Americans, have forced the spring. Now, we must do the work the season demands.”
Source: U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
“You my friend are missing the point though
Let go of that curse you call ego
You’ll see a wealth immersed inside of you
No words to give justice
, it's beautiful
A light so bright divine, it's powerful
Rumi in you sees plenty potential”
Source: Letter 19
“You my friend, are the only being who can become, nay, who are, the only real, living messiah on earth, to make real impact upon the lives that are infested with the ever-darkening darkness of hopelessness.”
Source: Let The Poor Be Your God
“You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.”
“You my love became a burden to carry, like chewed gum hardened by saliva in my thirsty mouth and with no bins in sight. You are now stuck under the barstool that cradles me at a hundred year old bar for the heartbroken. I drink the night away but no one really knows now that I once loved you.”
Source: Lover
“You my opposer when I want FREEDOM, you my
opposer when I want JUSTICE, you my opposer
when I want EQUALITY, you won't even stand up
for me in AMERICA for my religious beliefs, you
want me to go somewhere & fight, and you won't
even stand up for me at home. If I'm gonna die, I'll
die right here fighting you. I don't care, put me in
jail”
“You, my reader, who see me close, wonder about my heartbeats and measure my words, you my close friend who know my eyes and the home of their prose, you, my only lover, who always move my life, my poetry's pace and rhyme,...
I can not disclose the shape of metaphors, nor what they bashfully display behind the robes of their naked source; but you can use the eyes of heart to feel what they are made of.
And if it's a tear or a smile I evoke, it means we are human, it means we care and we love.
It means we are both beautiful. (Soar)”
“You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot.”
Source: The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far
“You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.”
“You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.”
“You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be 100 percent (to play), but I don't.”
“You name the TV psychic - they're con men.”
“You named the chicken, Chicken?"
She looked embarrassed. "When we decided not to kill it, I got attached.”
Source: On the Island
“You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons.
I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms.
To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens.
To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends.”
“You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination?”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“You narrow hope when you define it.”
Source: The Time of the Dark
“You nasty, you nasty. You
mama said you nasty!”
Source: The Collector
“You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.”
“You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.”
“You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?' 'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.' He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.”
“You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.”
Source: Lost in a Good Book
“You nearly killed him-"
"You do dwell on details”
Source: Ombria in Shadow
“You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.”
Source: All That Is Unspoken
“You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent. It's like everything you do to lead up to a great recording or great performance is everything you've done in the past and you can't just, it's rare that someone wakes up in a void and goes and wakes up and makes the most brilliant recording or performance.”