Be You Quotes - Page 11

• Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "The Knight" (p. 81), 1999.

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• We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Identity, Cards

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• You switched the days," I said, dismayed. "You blew the tire. You..." I trailed off, probably because the next words out of my mouth were either going to be "You are enough to do this?" or "You're destined for a life of crime." It was a toss-up either way.

  Ally Carter

  Mouths, Way, Toss

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• Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Self, Easy, Should

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• I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Eye, Hair, Color

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.189, A&C Black

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• There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.189, A&C Black

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• With the supplies gathered, he went over to the stainless-steel sink and pressed the foot pedal to get the water running. While he washed his hands, he said quietly, "If I could, I would." "Excuse me?" Qhuinn pumped some suds into his palms and scrubbed all the way up his forearms. Which was overkill, but if Blay wanted him superclean, then that was what he was going to be. "If I could love a guy like that, it would be you.

  J.R. Ward

  Running, Hands, Feet

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1277, Penguin

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• ‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality, People, Religion

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• I knew it would be you

  Charles Bukowski

  Would Be

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Though you feel you're not where you're suppose to be, you shouldn't worry because that next turn that you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Worry, Next, Turns

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• When I get involved, I give it my heart,
  I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part.
  But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't.
  It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Mean, Heart

  Song: Paper Thin, Album: Lyte as a Rock

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• Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
  And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

  Phife Dawg

  Being Yourself, Lying, Rap

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• You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Travel

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• To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Creative, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.102, Penguin

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• It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

  Giordano Bruno

  Fear, May, Judgment

  "Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought". Book by Dorothea Waley Singer, 1950.

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• I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!

  Pablo Neruda

  Jealous, Men, Hair

  Pablo Neruda (1994). “The captain's verses”

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• When you first take someone’s life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human being you used to be. You’re never the same after that—it changes you forever and not in a good way —and no matter how hard you try, you can’t go back to the innocence you had. Ever.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, People, Forever

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• Charley talking to Cookie ‘'You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained around the clock because they mix up everyones medication and steal all the bedpans?'' ‘’Yes'' I said wondering what I was walking into ''That’s going to be you!'' She was probably right, if I live that long

  Darynda Jones

  Home, Nursing, Talking

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• To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

  Andy Stanley

  Self, Leader, Coaching

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• Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

  Brian Johnson

  Motivational, Dream, Fun

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• And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

  Penelope Lively

  Lying, Years, Forever

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Consequences”, p.39, Penguin

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• Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

  David O. Russell

  Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

  Charles Baxter

  Moving, Love You, World

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.23, Vintage

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• If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Success, Responsibility, Assuming

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• If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

  Sean Covey

  Type, Persons, Ifs

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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