- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't make people respond.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'
- Nothin
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- Nov 07, 2020