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“You say, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” I say, “believe it, and then you’ll see it.”
“You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.”
“You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.”
“You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah”
“You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.”
“You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?”
“You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.”
“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“You say it like that's not the ambition for all rulers? Even the smallest man given the taste of power is bound to abuse it.”
“You say it’s because you want to be a man of your times. You call this frenzy of yours involvement. Oh, sure, you’re involved, you take part, you take part a little too much. But really you’re a passive man, you pick up words and ideas from books that appeal to the masses and you put them in play, you’re entirely subject to the conventions and trends of people who matter, whom you quickly hope to associate with.”
Source: Lacci
“You say it’s love.
I say it’s sex.
And it’s not meant for us.”
Source: Angy & Satty: Two Angels, One Friendship
“You say just, Ellis says flatly. There is no just with Edward Monkford. Nothing's more important to him than getting his own way.”
Source: The Girl Before
“You say kidnap. We say hold in a secure facility until it's safe to turn you over to the proper authorities," Bex replied with a grin. "But to each his own.”
Source: United We Spy
“You say love is just a four letter word.”
“You say 'love' too easily, Kepler."
"No, not rally - please don't call me that. The idea that love has to be a blazing romantic thing of monogamous stability is innately ludicrous. You loved your parents, perhaps, because they were the warmth you could flee to. You loved your first childhood crush with a passion that made your lips tingle, your flesh grow light in their presence. You loved your wife with the steadiness of an ocean against the shore; your lover with the blaze of a shooting star, your best friend with the confidence of a mountain. Love is a many-splendorous thing, as the old song says....”
Source: Touch
“You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.”
Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate
“You say move on
I can't but rue on”
Source: Oblivion's Yelp
“You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.”
“You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.”
Source: Little Women ; Little Men ; Jo's Boys
“You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain”
“You say people's struggles are a game! That's totally wrong!
Facing yourself no matter how tough things get... and keeping up the fight... that's what games are really about!
You bet your chip of life as if it meant nothing! You lost to yourself! When you realized you were going to lose, you didn't have the courage to keep living!
Listen... Real courage is protecting that chip you have in your hands... no matter what!"
-Anzu to Kaiba”
Source: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 5: The Heart of the Cards
“YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.”
Source: I Want to Make You Safe
“You say potato; I say potahto..." I say integrity; you say deceit.”
“You say "show me the path out of weakness", I say, "weakness is the path, walk on it daringly and it'll turn into strength".”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.”
“You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.”
“You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.”
“You say that, but have you played Cherry Blossom Fairy Five, April May? Have you?”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.”
Source: Forty Years on Main Street
“You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.
Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.”
“You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.”
Source: Stranger Things Happen
“You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.”
“You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man: there is no Folly that may not have a thousand Reasons produc'd to advance it into the Class of Wisdom. Reason itself is a Mist.”
Source: Hawksmoor
“You say that money doesn't bring happiness... but you have them... don't ya?
If they don't bring happiness give them to average class and the result will be called "Bringing happiness!”
“You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.”
“You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.”
“You say that one day you will silently exit my life story. Yes, you can, but do you remember those animated movies where a character would walk through a wall, yet a distinct cutout shape would remain? Yes, like that, your silhouette will forever linger on the walls of my heart.”
“You say that to (Franz) Boas science is "austere and impersonal." You know, that is just the thing that gets my goat. They have managed to take all the life out of science. Why be ashamed of the joy and the exaltations that are the blood of knowl-edge? Why pretend that you have no emotions? In another century they will look aghast at the funereal aspect of our science. They will say: those people were doing penance for something! ... We have driven our libido underground.”
— Jaime de Angulo, written in a letter to his friend and mentor, the linguist Edward Sapir
(Appears in the introduction to "Tracks Along the Left Coast" by Andrew Schelling)”
“You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.”
“You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.”
Source: The trial of Jeanne d'Arc
“You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.”
“You say that you don’t care about age and that you’re ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?”
Source: Our Young Man
“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
“You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.”
“You say that you trust no one, but I don't believe you. You trust constantly - even when you don't realize it. At the intersection, you trust that the other drivers will stop when their traffic lights are red; you trust the architects and builders when you walk into a building, the engineers when hopping onto a roller coaster, the cook when you're eating the meal prepared for you. To some extent you trust countless strangers on a daily basis. Just as you would have an extremely tough time surviving in this world with a full trust in all people, you would have an extremely tough time surviving in this world without any trust for any people.”
Source: Healology
“You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say this?" "When he left me." "Did he say anything more?" "He mentioned his name." Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me. "Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?" “His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.”
“You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.”
“You say the dream and the world are two separate things, and that is because you have yet to awaken from the dream.”
Source: Le Songe des neuf nuages