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“You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.”
Source: Three Fates
“You spend your life hoarding memories against the day you'll lack the energy to go out and make new ones, because that's the comfort of the old age. The ability to look back at your life and know that you left your mark on the world. But I'm losing my memories, it's like someone's broken into my piggy bank and is robbing me one penny at a time. It's happening so slowly, I can hardly tell what's missing.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.”
“You spend your time blaming the other for what's not getting done and you actually do a couple things, and then you switch to, "Hey, let's instead compete about who gets the credit for what we just did." And that's a lot more fun.”
“You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.”
“You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.”
“You spend your whole life convincing yourself you are a chapter worth following, and then someone comes along and doesn't want to read the ending, and suddenly the whole story falls apart”
Source: Pillow Thoughts
“You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.”
“You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers... you run out hope.”
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.”
“You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.”
“You spent centuries manufacturing lies as law, prejudice as policy, cleansing as civilizing, now watch one Naskar and his ablaze soldiers establish the first proper Human Civilization, with no one dominant culture, no one supreme religion, no majority, no minority, no privileged, no marginalized - where all streams inhabit the human veins, not as oil and water, but as one lifeblood, enhancing consciousness into completeness.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!.”
“You spoil your horse, Halt said. Will glanced at him. You spoil yours. Halt considered the thought, then nodded. That's true.”
“You spoilt rich brats are so myopic. It must be difficult for you to see clearly beyond the length of your nose.”
“You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.”
“You spoke carefully, as if the story was a flame in your hands in the wind.
...I wanted to cry but did not yet know how to in English. So I did nothing.
That was the day I learned how dangerous a colour can be.
...Even if colour is nothing but what the light reveals, that nothing has laws, and a boy on a pink bike must learn, above all else, the law of gravity.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword.”
Source: The Titan's curse
“You spoke to her, in hidden dreams...and smiled at her through open doors. She felt your secret love surround her at times. And while alone she felt your breath, heartbeat and more... Serenity of hers is never-ending, soothing....it leads, lures, calls you... Ah, timeless burning flame!.. Her kiss is ocean salty water, you drink and thirst increases...you long and pray for more...”
“You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.
[Francesca] 'We did.'
V: 'And he trusts you?'
F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.”
Source: Spellbound
“You spoke to the devil last night and discovered that his voice matched your echo perfectly.”
“You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“You spread me under you
as if I were silk dining cloth,
and you, trembling in an
insatiate chalice, the red wine
about to ruin me.”
“You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie...”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“You stackin cheddar cause you working at the burger place.”
“You staked him. You actually staked him."
"It was handy. Let's get those medics in here. I don't want this guy skipping out on multiple murder charges by dying on me. I want to know the minute he's able to talk. I think we're going to get an interesting confession."
"It's supposed to be the heart." she heard Peabody mutter. "It's really supposed to be the heart."
Eve blew out a long breath. "Keep it up, Peabody, and I may have Mira shrink your head after she's done with the second-rate Dracula”
Source: Eternity in Death
“You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.''
''I just applied for a job as a tree,'' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding.”
Source: Going Nowhere Faster
“You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You stand against everything that I stand for.”
Source: Prisoners of Betrayal
“You stand alone upon a height," he said, dreamily, "like one in a dreary land. Behind you all is darkness, before you all is darkness; there is but one small space of light. In that one space is a day. They come, one at a time, from the night of To-morrow, and vanish into the night of Yesterday.
"I have thought of the days as men and women, for a woman's day is not at all like a man's. For you, I think, they first were children, with laughing eyes and little, dimpled hands. One at a time, they came out of the darkness, and disappeared into the darkness on the other side. Some brought you flowers or new toys and some brought you childish griefs, but none came empty-handed. Each day laid its gift at your feet and went on.
"Some brought their gifts wrapped up, that you might have the surprise of opening them. Many a gift in a bright-hued covering turned out to be far from what you expected when you were opening it. Some of the happiest gifts were hidden in dull coverings you took off slowly, dreading to see the contents. Some days brought many gifts, others only one.
"As the days grew older, some brought you laughter; some gave you light and love. Others came with music and pleasure--and some of them brought pain."
"Yes," sighed Evelina, "some brought pain."
"It is of that," went on the Piper, "that I wished to be speaking. It was one day, was it not, that brought you a long sorrow?"
"Yes."
"Not more than one? Was it only one day?"
"Yes, only one day,"
"See," said The Piper, gently, "the day came with her gift. You would not let her lay it at your feet and pass on into the darkness of Yesterday. You held her by her grey garments and would not let her go. You kept searching her sad eyes to see whether she did not have further pain for you. Why keep her back from her appointed way? Why not let your days go by?"
"The other days," murmured Evelina, "have all been sad."
"Yes, and why? You were holding fast to one day--the one that brought you pain. So, with downcast eyes they passed you, and carried their appointed gifts on into Yesterday, where you can never find them again. Even now, the one day you have been holding is struggling to free herself from the chains you have put upon her. You have no right to keep a day."
"Should I not keep the gifts?" she asked. His fancy pleased her.
"The gifts, yes--even the gifts of tears, but never a day. You cannot hold a happy day, for it goes too quickly. This one sad day that marched so slowly by you is the one you chose to hold. Lady," he pleaded, "let her go!”
Source: A Spinner In The Sun
“You stand as rocks stand
to which the sea reaches
in transparent waves of longing;
they are marred, finally;
everything fixed is marred.
And the sea triumphs,
like all that is false,
all that is fluent and womanly.”
Source: Descending Figure
“You stand by me, and you believe in me like nobody ever has. When my world goes crazy, you're right there to save me. You make me see how much I have.”
“You stand exactly in the middle, poised between heaven and earth, a human conductor for the energy that seeks to flow between these two polarities.”
Source: The Art of Sexual Magic
“You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.”
Source: You Don't Know Me
“You stand for what is right-
for the patient and the staff.
Pressures of work may down you,
maybe bent but not broken.”
Source: No Return Address: A collection of poems
“You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.”
“You stand in front of an electric fence and whip your dick out to take a piss on it, it's pretty clear you're about to make a mistake. Other than that, you pretty much have no way of knowing.”
Source: I Suck at Girls
“You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.”
“You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.”
“You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly”
Source: The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories: 100th Anniversary Edition
“You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.”
“You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.”
“You stand out like a fart in a church.”
“You stand up because you believe, not because you want to win. I don't want you add more hate to this world. We have enough.”
Source: Suggested Reading
“You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“You stand up to bullies. Don't shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.”
“You stand up to that challenging shot, you put yourself into that shot, and you pour yourself into it confidently. Stand up and commit yourself completely. If you miss it, you miss it certainly. You've done everything you can.”