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You were the the exception to the rule. You were the one person who made me rethink everything I ever believed in and I'm so happy that you did. — Beth Rinyu

Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk. — Richard E. Besser

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week. — Robert Reed

No matter how hard you worked, there was always going to be somebody out there who thought you were fuckup. — Megan Hart

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming. — Liz Curtis Higgs

That's what birthdays were. Days when you found out where you stood. Who was on your side and who wasn't. Nothing to do with how old you were. — Rupert Thomson

Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming. — Barbara Sher

It looks like you two never really got into the eye of the storm. You were more like ... the cows who got tossed around on the outskirts. — Abigail Roux

What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian. — Charles Bukowski

Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope. — Eugene McCarthy

Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk,
when you could not even walk. — Akash Lakhotia

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself. — Horatio Nelson

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins? — Julian Casablancas

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status. — Kerry Greenwood

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is ... We've all heard that — Randy Pausch

Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway. — Irvin D. Yalom

You were meant to be my balance Aline.
You are the only person in the world who might rule with me, who might keep my powers in check — Leigh Bardugo

But what did that mean? Was family the ones you were born to, or the ones who took you in? Did the first years of his life weigh more than the rest? — V.E Schwab

Chile, who you tellin'? I had to tell him that you were fresh out the "big house" and that's why you were actin' so crazy, with your horny ass, — D.A. Young

There weren't many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong. — Rob Thomas

Being judged and found lacking by the people who were supposed to love you never left anyone feeling all right. — Mariana Zapata

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms. — Henry Rollins

Men who loved you when you were twenty, and who continue to see you the way you looked then are impossible to replace. — Irene Nemirovsky

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies. — Jon Foreman

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were. — Betsy Z. Cohen

You need to be loyal to the people who have helped you in the past & gave you a break when you were not a big player. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

It's strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born. — Pedro A. Perez Raymond

It's not who you were, It's who you've become that matters — Jeff Radford

I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within — Saint Augustine

Who knew you were this stubborn?" Not me. I didn't know I was this stubborn. — Nicola Yoon

We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be. — Robert Cheeke

Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant. — James Arthur Ray

Any man who isn't married by thirty-five is either gay or he's got skeletons in his closet. — Lisa Renee Jones

When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there. — Malcolm McNeill

You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her — Ally Carter

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference. — Bob Dole

Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person. — Ruby Rose

If all who love one another were of the same opinion, living would be monotonous, and conversation flabby. So cheer up. You are content. All me to be. — Mildred Aldrich

That's why you got married - to feel safe from all the men who were trying to siphon your soul. — Tarryn Fisher

Who you are - and what you have - today, is a reflection of how fearful or fearless you were yesterday. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right. — Heather Demetrios

At what point in your life did you decide you were the sort of guy who wanted to be fisted? — Lisa Henry

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them. — Ellen Langer

There were seven thermonuclear devices? queried Parks, who had latched on to Jack's outlandish explanation without too much difficulty, as should you. — Jasper Fforde

It's funny how you can become something merely by forgetting who you once were. — Chrissy Moon

Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars — Darren Hayes

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be ... — Sydney J. Harris

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard. — Carl Andre

Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right. — Cormac McCarthy

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. — Alan Moore

No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else. — Jodi Picoult

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were. — Robert Breault

It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became. — Candace Bushnell

Enemies, like friends, told you who you were. — David Malouf

Who you were is never as important as who you are. So ... who are you? — Chelsea Fine

And any man who would leave you because you were sexually inexperienced is not worth missing. — Sylvain Reynard

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about. — William Maxwell

You realize that if he doesn't know who you are, he won't be able to remember who you were. — Melissa Bank

- Find out who you were. Why — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Let go of the labels that confine you. Be who you are. The unique person you were born to be! — Raven Williams

Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan. — Mary Jo Putney

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you. — Dallas Willard

To Jaden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Taishan, Gerry and Justin. For who you were and who you might have been. — Gary Younge

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all. — Sarah Dessen

She sighed and said, "Why not us? Who knows whether you were given this opportunity for such a time as this?"

-Evelyn Coble, Epoch Dawning — C.H.E. Sadaphal

You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off. — Julianna Margulies

If you gave a bag of potato chips to the guy who invented Pringles, he'd look at you like you were trying to hand him an abortion. — Dana Gould

(Addie) I said. (If it had been you - if it were you trapped inside. If you were the one who couldn't move, I'd go back. I'd go back in a second.) — Kat Zhang

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Black women were created of
brown sugar and warm honey.
the sweetest thing to bless the earth.
be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. — Alexandra Elle

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here — Billy Connolly

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become. — Terry Goodkind

Dawn, Cillian. That is how long I'll wait for your apology. For you to remember you were nothing but a puppet king who forgot he was on strings. — J.J. McAvoy

Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them. — Jim Butcher

Foget Murphy's Law. Nixe's Law: if you were waiting to make a left turn, there was always one oncoming fucktard who sailed through on the red. — Mary Hughes

I'm not ashamed of who you are. And the only time I would look down on you is if I were helping you back up. — Belle Aurora

The bulk of life is discovering who you are - and then reconciling that with who you wish you were. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You looked like you'd been trying to fade away. I thought you were a woman who needed to be seen. — Moira Rogers

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into. — Alice Munro

Mrs. Edmund smiled and then turned to go. "I'll leave you two alone."
Who? Me and the door? Yes, we were bonding quite well. — Renee Carter

If you must let someone down, be sure it isn't the friend who helped you up when you were down. — Napoleon Hill

I wish she were receptive enough to discuss what I learned, but you can't expect the same person who wounded you to heal you. So — Neil Strauss

Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be. — Dan Pearce

It's much easier when you have your co-workers who are just, they're there in the moment. If you were out of the moment, you would feel odd. — Dave Bautista

I've always loved who I loved, and it never mattered to me where they were from. That's how it should be: wherever your heart tells you to go, you go. — Rutina Wesley

He said you were very dangerous."
"No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth. — Jasper Fforde

When you set out, you were four. Six with friends who could not stay behind. Now you are one. — Erin Hunter

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being. — Tahereh Mafi

So, in the end, who you were doesn't seem to matter. It's who you are that does. And this change was for the best of us. — Unknown

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling. — Staness Jonekos

People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did. — Charlie Jane Anders

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are. — Christopher McDougall

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. — Pablo Neruda

S'important to have old friends." Silas wagged a finger. "They remember who you were before you made yourself up. — Damon Suede

I don't miss you, I miss who I thought you were. — Waseem Latif

You were the one who hit me on the roof?
I hit you on the jaw. We just happened to be on a roof at the time. — Darynda Jones

Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called — Sunday Adelaja