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“You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel”
“You tackled down your challenges and made them your prey. You didn’t bow down to your weakness—if you had, you wouldn’t be here today.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos”
“You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.”
“You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he's told. He doesn't care. He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.”
“You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.”
“You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.”
Source: Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)
“You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.”
“You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.”
“You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors. It's the morning of your very first day. You say hi to your friends you ain't seen in a while, try and stay out of everybody's way. It's your freshman year and your gonna be here for the next four years in this town. Hopin' one of those senior boys will wink at you and say, "You know I haven't seen you around before." 'Cause when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen, feelin' like there's nothin' to figure out, but, count to ten, take it in. This is life before you know who you're gonna be. Fifteen.”
Source: Taylor Swift - Fearless: Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab
“You take a dick and you get it wet and then you put it someplace tight—”
Source: Bad Company
“you take a drag and you breathe me out,
and like smoke i linger in the february cold”
Source: crabbing season: a collection of poetry and prose
“You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.”
“You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.”
“You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.”
Source: Lovely in Her Bones
“You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.”
“you take a lover
for granted, you take
a lover who looks at you
like maybe you are magic”
“You take a normal guy, give him a wife, give them time, and you've got AN IDIOT!”
“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”
“You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.”
“You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.”
“You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.”
“You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.”
“You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.”
“You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.”
“You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.”
“You take a step toward that Sorrengail and you’ll be dead before you can even shift your weight,” Xaden says”
Source: Fourth Wing
“You take a step toward this Sorrengail and you'll be dead before you can even shift your weight,' Xaden says, his voice dropping lethally. 'She's not up for discussion.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.”
Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead
“You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea or men, but don't hate an individual person. Who's done you a real injury. Next thing you know he'll be getting into your beer like prussic acid; and blotting out your eyes like a cataract and screaming in your ears like a brain tumour and boiling round your heart like melted lead and ramping though your guts like a cancer. And a nice fool you'd look if he knew. It would make him laugh till his teeth dropped out; from old age.”
Source: THE HORSE'S MOUTH
“You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.”
“You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.”
“You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.”
“You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny, in a way.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise”
“You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.”
“You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him long ago.' Frodo wondered if the remark meant more than it said”
“you take all of
my walls down with
this fever-driven dream
and we've got messy hearts
with your skin against mine,
but as much as fear has my head
gripped and you at arm's length,
we. still. intertwine.
you're a soul instinct.
and this feeling is a heart imprint.
and when you're this close to me
there's this way your
heartbeat promises to take care of my
own… so maybe it's safe to just give in
to slow kisses on wild skin.”
“you take all of
my walls down with
this fever-driven dream
and we've got messy hearts
with your skin against mine,
but there's this way your
heartbeat promises
to take care of my own…
so maybe it's safe to just give in
to slow kisses on wild skin.”
“You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.”
“You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.”
“You take all the time to write a song: you have to let it ooze on out by its natural self and that is pretty time consuming. Then you teach it to the band so everybody gets all the parts. Then you rehearse it and road test it, and all that. Then you get to the studio and there is a new guy in the band who calls himself the producer, right? Huh. He either makes it or breaks it usually before nightfall.”
“You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.”
“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.”
“You take care and I hope I'll run into you - when I'm driving.”
“You take care of my bairn."
He blinks. "I beg your pardon?"
"My ornithopter.”
Source: The Falconer
“You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.”
Source: Stay
“You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about.”
“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”