Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.”
“You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.”
“You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.”
Source: Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)
“You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.”
“You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.”
“You probably can't imagine there being a glory in your life, let alone one that the Enemy fears. But remember - things are not what they seem. We are not what we seem. You probably believed that your heart was bad too. I pray that fog of poison gas from the pit of hell is fading away in the wind of God's truth. And there is more. Not only does Christ say to you that your heart is good, he invites you now out of the shadows to unveil your glory. You have a role you never dreamed of having.”
Source: Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire
“You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company. They probably would've had had identical demographics for the people who really loved those companies.”
“You probably don't want maximum effectiveness.
For example, the most effective way to make money likely requires a lifestyle you don't want to live. Instead, you want the most effective path that fits your desired lifestyle.
How do you want to spend your days? Start there, then optimize.”
“You probably don't call home and say, 'Hi, mom. I am facing Pete Schourek tonight.' Names and stats don't do it. You have to do it out on the field.”
“You probably don't have much of a choice.”
Source: Programming Windows 95
“You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.”
“You probably even dream about me.” His gaze lowered to my mouth. I felt my lips part. “I bet you even write my name in your notebooks, over and over again, with a little heart drawn around it.”
Source: Obsidian
“You probably faked passing out the other day, just so you could be carried in my hot, sweaty, manly arms.”
Source: Hopeless
“You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.”
“You probably fucked a priest and now your baby's going to be a monkey. And it won't get born with a silver spoon in its mouth, it'll be wearing a little black and white collar like so-" Little Mary jumps up and begins to dance around making hooh-hooh monkey sounds and putting her fingers to her neck. She's talented. She like the dark side, the devil version of her supersmart dad, Eddy.”
Source: Future Home of the Living God
“You probably have someone in your life whom you'd do something stupid for.”
Source: Anxious People
“You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why.”
“You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.”
“You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.”
“You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.”
“You probably have your own scenes you've lived through---scenes where you think that if only people knew what was really going on, they might cut you some slack and help you.”
Source: Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting
“You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.”
“You probably hold the keys to all the doors that lead to my world. And I fear someday I will not be able to change the lock for every door out there permanently for you when it becomes necessary.”
Source: Between the Abyss and Paradise
“You probably just finished shitting anyway," Kaui says. She hands him the thermos, "was it a soft serve morning or more like a German sausage?”
Source: Sharks in the Time of Saviors
“You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the back of a city bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, one of the pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement.”
“You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.”
“You probably never realized this, but God wants to partner with us so that we can establish his kingdom here on earth. Have you heard of the universal principal of receiving? This principal is simply that in order to receive, you have to share. According to the Jewish tradition, an act of charity has the ability to change even a negative heavenly decree. Charity is not just meant to improve the world and those around you. It may surprise you to learn that it mostly serves to improve ourselves.”
Source: Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
“You probably only know what you've read [about Marilyn Monroe].You didn't know her. The people who talk about her didn't know her either.”
“You probably recall the famous statement at the beginning of Anna Karenina, in which Tolstoy, donning there the cloak of a calm village deity and hovering over the void full of benign toleration and loving kindness, declares from on high that all happy families resemble one another, while unhappy families are all unhappy in their own way. With all due respect to Tolstoy I’m telling you that the opposite is true: Unhappy people are mainly plunged in conventional suffering, living out in sterile routine one of five or six threadbare clichés of misery. Whereas happiness is a rare, fine vessel, a sort of Chinese vase, and the few people who have reached it have shaped and formed it line by line over the course of years, each in his own image and likeness, each in his own character, so that no two happinesses are alike. And in the molding of their happiness they have instilled their own suffering and humiliation. Like refining gold from ore. There is happiness in the world, Alec, even if it is more ephemeral than a dream. Indeed in your case it is beyond your reach. As a star is beyond the reach of a mole. Not “the satisfaction of approval,” not praise and advancement and conquest and domination, not submission and surrender, but the thrill of fusion. The merging of the I with another. As an oyster enfolds a foreign body and is wounded and turns it into its pearl while the warm water still surrounds and encompasses everything. You have never tasted this fusion, not once in your whole life. When the body is a musical instrument in the hands of the soul. When Other and I strike root in each other and become a single coral. And when the drip of the stalactite slowly feeds the stalagmite until the two of them become one.”
Source: Black Box
“You probably should get back out there. You’re ignoring your other guests.” “Screw them.” “I’m sure that many of them, you already have.”
Source: Just the Sexiest Man Alive
“You probably shouldn't laugh any more.”
“You probably think I'm just a hysterical woman who would be better off home doing woman's work."
"We're in the state that was the first to give women the right to vote. I'm not about to tell you what a woman's work should be," I said...”
Source: Hell Hole
“You probably think Italians like meals with heavy meats and sauces, but they actually prefer light meats. They see turkey as a healthy, light white meat that lends itself excellently to their style of cooking, and they use it in many different ways. Also, Europeans do not celebrate Thanksgiving so they perceive turkey as an all-year round option.”
“You probably think I’m at a disadvantage. I promise you, I’m not.”
“You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
producing a confused agreeable mass
of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.”
Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine
“You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal student poontang as The Hawkster, you'd be in a wheelchair too.”
Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More
“You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)”
Source: Jeeves And The Tie That Binds
“You probably think you know all about men, because you read a lot of romance novels, so you think you're an expert on men. But I'm gonna tell you a little secret: the men in those books are fiction. They do not at all represent how men in real life actually think. Those romance novels were written for women by women (and a few men who know what women like to read, so they write romance to make a quick buck.)
When you read a book like Grey, Christian's inner monologue does not at all sound like how a man actually thinks in real life. It sounds like a woman does a poor job of imagining how a man thinks. The fictitious men in romance novels are as fake and imaginary as vampires. They're not real.
Right about now, there's probably a little voice in your head, screaming: “NOOO!!! You can't say that! You can't speak for all men! Every man is different!!”
True. No two dogs are alike. And yet, all dogs have something in common that makes them dogs, and makes them different from cats. The same goes for men and women. The trouble starts when cats don't realize that dogs are different. Dogs think differently, and perceive the world differently, than cats do. I'm a dog. You're a cat. And a dog knows better what it's like to be a dog than a cat does.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends: Honest Relationship Advice for Women
“You probably thinking they you've seen someone like me before. But I'm a G and they don't make em like me anymore.”
“You probably won't remember me. I'm probably ancient history. I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you. I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch. I fell too fast, I feel too much. I thought that you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.”
“You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.”
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
“You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.”
“You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.”
“You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.”
“You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instil in them the spirit of possession?”
“You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instill in them the spirit of possession?”
“You profit off the frailties and misfortunes of the very people you claim to serve simply because you can. Because those who have the most in this world are the ones who have the most to lose.”
“You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.”
“You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.”