Y Quotes
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“You never know how much time you'll have.”
“You never know how much you can grow.”
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
Source: A Grief Observed
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
Source: A Grief Observed
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“You never know how much you truly appreciate sleep until it’s snatched away from you.”
Source: Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers
“You never know how people are going to respond.”
“You never know how people are gonna receive you and especially a character that's so close to the fans in type...”
“You never know how strong you are until you've been tested. People will try you on every level. They may think because you're not loud or rude like them that you won't put them in their place. But, push the wrong buttons and you'll soon find out.”
Source: Release The Ink
“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”
“You never know how stylish a movie is going to be and I think this movie has a great sense of style. The way that it is shot and our costumes and everything, it was just terrific.”
“You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.”
“You never know how things are going to fit. So, you don't count your eggs until they hatch. You can't pre-project that. I mean, this was literally like a childhood fantasy of mine, to be able to work in action. You know, growing up on Disney films like Pocahontas and wanting to enter into that, or Aladdin and how he's fighting - being your own hero, being your own heroine is like every one's dream.”
“You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.”
“You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.”
Source: The Undomestic Goddess
“You never know how things are going to turn out.”
“You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.”
“You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.”
“You never know how things work and what exactly is going to grab an audience. Sometimes even the best material and the best collection of people interpreting that material just for some reason doesn't fly with people. There are a lot of TV shows or movies that maybe aren't as good as others that do work when it comes to finding an audience. It's a mystery, that whole thing. If somebody figured it out, this would be quite a great industry.”
“You never know how weak you are until someone makes you Cry.!!”
“You never know how you look through other people's eyes.”
“You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.”
Source: The Ivy Tree
“You never know how you're going to affect people.”
“You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.”
“You never know how your work is going to be received.”
“You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.”
“You never know if it's any good until people respond to it. You know how it feels when you do it, but there's so many things involved. The thing you do realize is, if the movie isn't any good, then it's your fault. That's what you think about.”
“You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.”
“You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.”
“You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.”
“You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn't do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry whether we should have done something differently than we did.”
“You never know, just by looking, what a person is hiding.”
Source: Miracle on 5th Avenue
“You never know just what you can do until you try.”
“You never know. Maybe when we’re dreaming…we’re more lucid than when we are awake.”
“You never know- not truly- what it takes to make you discard caution until it's happening.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“You never know, of course, when you write a book what its fate will be. Sink out of sight, soar to the sun–who knows.
I love this quote from Frances Mayes. It pretty much sums up the Great Unknown of book writing.”
Source: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“You never know people as well as you think you do. People you love will betray you, lie, keep things from you. Lead completely different lives and it’ll hit you when you least expect it.”
Source: Was It Her?
“You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.”
“You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.”
“You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.”
Source: The Truth of Right Now
“You never know that the things you're doing are that meaningful to society.”
“You never know that this is the moment when you're in the moment. When I was sixteen I moved to a smaller town in Vermont, and at that time I didn't have a band to play in. So I was forced to play in Top 40 bands and fraternity bands and wedding bands. That was all pop music, but I was listening to Weather Report and classical music. Then I went to Berklee College of Music in 1978, and you had Victor Bailey there, and Steve Vai. And suddenly I was among my ilk.”
“You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.”
“You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.”
“You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days.”
“You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.”
Source: The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend
“You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“You never know the limit of a human being.”
“You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“You never know these days. Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination; doesn’t hurt to be in your Sunday clothes.”
Source: Half A Shadow