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“You see, religion alone can only take a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about Jesus”
“You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”
Source: Lolita
“You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.”
“You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.”
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.”
“You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.”
“You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.”
“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.”
Source: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
“You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.”
“You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.”
“You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.”
“You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."”
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.”
“You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.”
“You see, the difference is the Republicans' hatred of Obama is based on a paranoid feeling about what he might do, what he's thinking, what he secretly wants to change. Anger with Bush was based on what he actually did. What Bush was thinking didn't matter. Because he wasn't.”
“You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.”
“You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.”
“You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.”
“You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?”
“You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.”
“You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.”
Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure
“You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.”
“You see, the richest people I know don't always understand what is going on. They don't always like what they see. But they have a quiet confidence that God will put all things together for their good.”
“You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him.”
“You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.”
Source: Nightmares of an Ether-drinker
“You see, the thing about dreams is that it’s never really too late to make them come true.”
Source: A Chesapeake Shores Collection Volume 2: Driftwood Cottage\Moonlight Cove\Beach Lane\An O'Brien Family Christmas
“You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.”
“You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. Demi Lovato”
“You see, this people [Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, etc.] simply believed that God existed in the situation they were faced with, and they trusted Him rather than themselves. The result? God said, "That pleases Me." They were men and women just like you and I, which is the most encouraging part of all. We don't find golden haloes, or perfect backgrounds, or sinless lives, we just find people. People who failed, who struggled, who doubted, who experienced hard times and low times in which their faith was eclipsed by doubt. But their lives were basically characterized by faith.”
“You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.”
“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.”
“You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.”
Source: John Dies at the End
“You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage”
Source: A Tale Dark and Grimm
“You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“You see, to me, it doesnt really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly dont give a damn about who belongs to either political party.”
“You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.”
“You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.”
“You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.”
“You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.”
“You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.”
“You see, we didn't know.”
Source: The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls
“You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there. "I don't know what I'm building but I'm going to enjoy building it and when I get through building it I'll know what it is." In doing psychotherapy you impress this upon patients. You don't know what a baby is going to become. Therefore, you take good care of it until it becomes what it will.”
“you see, we live in a cold climate
and are not permitted to kiss on the street
so I made up a song that wasn't true.
I made up a song called Marriage.”
Source: Love Poems
“You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.”
“You see, we're America the Beautiful, not America 'Well, At Least She Has a Great Personality'.”
“You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.”