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“You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!”
“You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter”
“You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.”
“You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.”
“You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.”
“You neither force nor buy true affection, love speaks its way and own language regardless of high or low-class subjects.”
“You neither took the best train nor got off at the best station! If you have such a life philosophy, you have a better chance of finding the better or the best!”
“You nervous, little Pip?”
She groans. “Why would I be nervous, Rome?”
“You tell me. We’ve slept in the same bed before but last time, there wasn’t a barricade.”
“Last time, I was twelve, and you weren’t throwing around sexual innuendoes like confetti.”
Source: Playing Pretend
“You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!'
'You've known some weird girls, then," I say, raising an eyebrow at him.”
Source: Does My Head Look Big in This?
“You never abandon a gift that made you cry with joy. Never!”
Source: The Adoption
“You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.”
“You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.”
“You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.”
“You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. You don't even agree with me 100 percent.”
“You never answer a question nobody does.”
Source: The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind
“You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”
“You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.”
“You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.”
“You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.”
“You never asked about your present.'
'I assumed I wasn't getting one from you.'
He pushed off the door frame and shut the door behind him. He took up all the air in the room just by standing there. 'Why?'
She shrugged. 'I just did.'
He pulled a small box from his jacket and set it on the bed between them. 'Surprise.' Cassian swallowed as she approached, the only sign that this meant something to him.
Nesta's hands turned sweaty as she picked the box up, examining it. She didn't open it yet, though. 'I am sorry for how I behaved last Solstice. For how awful I was.'
He'd gotten her a present then, too. And she hadn't cared, had been so wretched she'd wanted to hurt him for it. For caring.
'I know,' he said thickly. 'I forgave you a long time ago.' She still couldn't look at him, even as he said, 'Open it.'
Her hands shook a little as she did, finding a silver ball nestled in the black velvet box. It was the size of a chicken egg, round save for one area that had been flattened so it might be set upon a surface and not roll. 'What is it?'
'Touch the top. Just a tap.'
Throwing a puzzled glance at him, she did so.
Music exploded into the room.
Nesta leaped back, a hand at her chest as he laughed.
But- music was playing from the silver orb. And not just any music, but the waltzes from the ball the other night, pure and free of any crowd chattering, as if she were sitting in a theatre to hear them. 'This isn't the Veritas orb,' she managed to say as the waltz poured out of the ball, so clear and perfect her blood sang again.
'No, it's a Symphonia, a rare device from Helion's court. It can trap music within itself, and play it back for you. It was originally invented to help compose music, but it never caught on, for some reason.'
'How did you get the crowd noise out when you trapped the sound the other night?' she marvelled.
His cheeks stained with colour. 'I went back the next day. Asked the musicians at the Hewn City to play it all again for me, plus some of their favourites.' He nodded to the ball. 'And then I went to some of your favourite taverns and found those musicians and had them play...'
He trailed off at her bowed head. The tears she couldn't stop. She didn't try to fight them as the music poured into the room.
He had done all of this for her. Had found a way for her to have music- always.
'Nesta,' he breathed.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“You never asked. It’s just, well… He doesn’t do a lot, does He? Our Father which art lost in heaven. I mean, if He did exist we’d have to sack Him. Or maybe He’s a laissez-faire God who just likes to watch.”
Source: Satan's Fan Club
“You never bomb yourself with happiness and wonder why you can't get beyond the shellshock of life.”
“You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.”
“You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.”
“You never came out the way you came in.”
“You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.”
“You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.”
“You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits.”
“You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.”
“You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. It's in the state of possibility of the ability to be in a trap which they want to put you... so they succeed. - Better Next time think!”
“You never can take for granted that you have a job.”
“You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.”
Source: Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
“You never can tell what's magic.”
Source: Ballet Shoes: Ballet Shoes
“You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.”
Source: Savvy
“You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“You never can tell with bees.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there are suicides. They're like poems in that respect, suicide notes: nearly everyone tries their hand at them some time, with or without the talent. We all write them in our heads. Usually the note is the thing. You complete it, and then resume your time travel. It is the note and not the life that is cancelled out. Or the other way round. Or death. You never can tell, though, can you, with suicide notes.”
“You never cared enough to be Black”
“You never cared that I was your sister before.” “Didn’t I?” His black eyes flicked up and down her. “Our father’s dead,” he said. “There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the Morgensterns. You are the only one left whose blood runs in my veins, too. You are my last chance.”
“You never cease to amaze me, Anastasia. After a day like today - or yesterday, rather - you're not whining or running off into the hills screaming. I am in awe of you. You're very strong."
"You're a very good reason to stay," I murmur.”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.”
“You never change people by fighting their existing reality.”
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
“You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.”
“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”
“You never compete with the people in your crew; you have your own team. Competition is only with those people whose film is releasing alongside on Friday and never with one's own team.”
“You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.”
“You never cook onions with your beans. That’s a recipe for tear gas.”
Source: The Shadow's Servant