You Quotes (page 198)

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• him
• water
• horse

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him sing opera. Richard Ford

• personal
• saying
• enough

You know what I am?" he says."What?"I'm an ordinary person."Come on."I know. Who isn't an ordinary person? How horribly presumptuous to want to be anything else. But I have to tell you. I've been treated as something special for so long and I've tried my hardest to be something special but I'm not, I'm not exceptional, I'm smart enough, but I'm not brilliant and I'm not spiritual or even all that focused. I think I can stand that, but I'm not sure if the people around me can. Michael Cunningham

• one on one
• crashed
• figuratively

You'll figure it out! You get on your plane and I'll get on mine. And we'll see which one crashes! Kazuo Ishiguro

• music
• world
• pass

You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours. Michael Cunningham

• missing
• missed
• never take

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky

• you me
• mother
• love

You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all Anne Rice

• silence
• learning
• sometimes

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. Chaim Potok

• canned
• seeing
• sees

You can't be what you can't see. Marian Wright Edelman

• past
• crying
• he

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can! F. Scott Fitzgerald

• someone
• continuance
• just because

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit Edward Said

• change
• crush
• ignorance

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. Ursula K. Le Guin

• temperance
• got
• temperate

You've got a bit of a temper, don't you? Stephenie Meyer

• you me
• rights
• right

You just see right through me, but if you only knew me... Taylor Swift

• couple
• coupled
• hears

You don’t want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out,” said Fred, also beaming. “There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn’t hear you. J. K. Rowling

• you me
• hostility
• molly

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly. Dave Barry