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“You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“You speak of love? Love is a sickness that causes men and women to do stupid things, the sorts of things that leave them sad and broken when the fever passes.”
Source: All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
“You speak of my popularity, but it is out of the question now, and in doing so, my dear Prime Minister, I declare that I will not doubt between my duty and my love: a popularity based on deceiving a country about its true interests would weigh heavily on my conscience and that is a burden that I do not want to bear.”
“You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.”
“You speak of shame as a beautiful thing, something to be gained because you yourself are overcome with it.”
Source: Child of Shadows
“You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit.”
“You speak rabbit?” asked Princess Sophie.
“Of course,” said Lady Ariana. “And cat, dog, mouse, pig, and chicken. Fish, too. I am a magician, after all.”
Source: Princess Sophie and the Christmas Elixir
“You speak so easily of war, when so many of your brothers and sisters lie dead at the bottom of the ocean, at the hands of the King’s navy. That is war.”
“When the maggot infested, mouldy bread runs out, and you’re so desperate for food that you daydream about finding a rat to cook, and stare contemplative at your fingers. That is war.”
“When you’re conscripted, spend years killing people, for a king, who look just like you, and come home to find your wife in bed with a man who dodged the call of battle. That is war.”
“When your people, your kind and everyone you love are hunted down and butchered like pigs in their sleep whilst they lay abed, just because of their ancestry. That is war.”
“When mothers put their daughters to the sword, rather than letting the victors have them as spoils of war. That is war.”
“When your wife fades away in your arms, simply because you and your kind have been labelled persons of interest for the knife. That is war.”
“When you sacrifice everything so that your daughter might live a better life, away from persecution, prejudice and fear, and then she is taken from you anyway. That is war.”
Source: Gearpox
“You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay”
Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Falcon Classics) [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 24]
“You speak the language of the stars
What should I say, that you won't know?
You see my Soul, my Heart - by far
You are the closest, you're my own.
What would you have me do, I ask?
Get off your knees. Arise, arise!
Throw all away, the chain, the mask,
Become full spectrum in the skies.
Lose your head, your careful pride,
Lose your steps to holy rhythms
Lose your need to choose a side
This and that and why - forgiven.
There's no "Why" when music plays,
Oh sweet heavens! Where 've you been?
Close your eyes, my lover says,
Look within, within, within!”
“you speak the truth. Much will be lost. I know it. The lesser knowledge must be given to gain the greater. And not once only.”
Source: Four Ways to Forgiveness
“You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.”
“You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.”
Source: Beauty Awakened
“You speak with little pity, my man.'
'I'm like the gentry, then. Like the parsons, and the justices, and the lords and ladies. Like that proud besom down to Blandamer.”
Source: Summer Will Show
“You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.”
“You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.”
“You speechless might be my new favorite thing.” Finn grinned wickedly right before he swallowed me deep, cheeks hollowing, eyes drifting closed.”
Source: Featherbed
“You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.”
“You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.”
“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”
“You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.”
Source: Hey Nostradamus!
“You spend a whole day thinking about what you're writing, that's writing.”
“You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.”
“You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
“You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.”
“You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.”
Source: High Fidelity
“You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.”
“You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.”
“You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?”
“You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical”
Source: I Know It's Over
“You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.”
Source: Reach for the Summit
“You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic.”
“You spend so many months and years in the studio, and you see the clock ticking and so much time spent on the minutiae of technical things. And I just thought it'd be fun to do something extremely fast and get that rush of something that had some energy, something that you weren't tired of when you finished it.”
“You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.”
“You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don't want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it reflects reality. People use humor to survive, even in the most horrific situations.”
“You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.”
“You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.”
“You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.”
Source: The Magic Kingdom of Landover
“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!”
“You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.”
“You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them”
“You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.”
“You spend too much time with ordinary women who live ordinary lives—they don’t expand you. That’s why you can never calibrate to higher levels of your true sensual potential.”
“You spend too much time with ordinary women who live ordinary lives—they don’t expand you. That’s why you can never calibrate to higher levels your true sensual potential.”
“You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.”
“You spend years swaying between letting go
and holding on, only to finally realise that
letting go off - someone you truly loved is
never about forgetting them completely or
achieving indifference. Their mention will still
trigger a momentary heaviness, their sadness
will still make you uneasy, their happiness will
still make you happy. You can't break those
strings, they just loosen up enough, not to
keep you tied. You never let go off them,
you just let go the Hope of togetherness.”
Source: Uns
“You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world and then as adults we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.”
“You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.”