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“You would do well to remember that you cannot physically stop a man from doing whatever he will with you. You need to be more careful."
"Actually, I could've stopped you had I wished." She took a tiny but lethal-looking pistol from somewhere on her person and brandished it before his eyes. "But I didn't wish to prevent you from kissing me."
Julian blinked and felt the foundations of his walls shake. She could have shot him. Could have intentionally wounded him or even killed him, and he would not have been able to prevent her.
He had thought he was in control of their embrace, but in reality, it was she who had held the control all along.
He closed his eyes--- for a second, only that--- and felt the thrill of the thought thrum through his body and harden his prick.
Her control.”
Source: No Ordinary Duchess
“You would establish trust if you were fair. You cannot claim true love since you were just judging me in every way with your open eyes with your team's help, while I, with my actual affection, without knowing you, judging and looking at you; I trusted to see your posts, your wording, your simplicity, and your style of angriness, and in a minute you felt sorry. All the rest of matters I left to God, but unfortunately, you gave no word of promise that you were serious with me. That's why all this happened. If I made a mistake and hurt you in any context, I know that was all your sweet humour that I took wrongly, and I apologize for that.”
“You would expect to see that first in high-yield [debt], but it was in the most liquid thing in the world. So that, I think - it's a little bit of a warning that we've got to be prepared and just be careful.”
“You would fancy any man who gave you baklava," I tease.
"You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?”
Source: Sweetness in the Belly
“You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.”
“You would free yourself from so much stress and drama if you just understood and embraced the truth that you are enough.”
“You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935
“You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.”
“You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.”
“You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.”
“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.”
“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."
What monsters may they be?"
Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...
There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?”
Source: Two on a Tower
“You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren’t wanted.”
“You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.”
“You would have been crazy for my ex-husband," Gwen told her once, as Willie Mae pulled the straightening comb, sizzling with grease.
"Is he still available?"
Mother chuckled and took a drag from her cigarette, catching the smoke with a damp towel. "He was available the whole time I was married to him.”
Source: Silver Sparrow
“You would have done whatever you had to do to survive the moment. And you would have received no judgment from me either way, do you understand?”
Source: Blood Water Paint
“You would have gone to the ends of the earth to save your High Lord.'
My chest hollowed out again, but I merely said. 'Yes, I would have,' and slipped inside my room to get ready.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2
“You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?" I am one. Death is my enemy." Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger." Yup.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8
“You would have only seen a skittish young deer jumping through the forest, having no idea it was a little girl.”
Source: His Name is Moonlight
“You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him; similarly, assuming that he was a Muslim, you wouldn't have killed his Muslimness, but him.”
Source: Toba Tek Singh: Stories
“You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body.”
“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”
“You would have to be crazy to take a job atop the biologically toxic Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii.”
“You would have to be desperate to apply for a job in a hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.”
“You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.”
“You would have to be very optimistic to think that any of your books will be among the books that survive in the very long run. I think if a writer is lucky enough to still have a few books around after he's gone, a few that are still being read, then he's accomplished quite a lot.”
“you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country... That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.”
“You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I would have thought.. I don't see any reason why that should suddenly disappear now that he has control of both houses.”
“You would hope that coworkers who are dating can act professionally. But then again, some people can handle it, and some people can't. And those who can't kind of ruin it for the rest of us. Sometimes it's hard to be around an office relationship that went sour. When two actors have to be onscreen together, it can get really, really awful.”
“You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.”
“You would kill or enslave everyone? There is so much beauty in the world that they’d destroy. How do you not see it? (Delphine) Spoken like someone who has only lived in the cushioned world of dreams. You have no idea what the real world is like. What people will do to you when they know they can get away with it. People are absolutely cruel and I say more power to Noir for tearing it down. (Jericho)”
“You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”
“You would like to listen the sweetest music
and you would like to find the finest cuisines.
You would like to listen the sweetest music and you would like to find the finest cuisines. You know that you can't do so many things anymore because you know that you have grown up and you decided to move on with life by pursuing new life with your spouse. You believe in miracles. You know the fact that creator is protecting you, soothing you and he is conveying your every mood and emotions.
Your creator is always giving you helping hand and he is proud on your each and every
achievement."
- Shwin J Brad”
Source: Mindfulness and stress relief
“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain.”
Source: Embers
“You would like to read my thoughts about you, my feelings for you, but I am your experience in which you live, long before being a person which you could know. Therefore, begin with your heart and soul, I'm partially hidden inside you. External world, outside your heart and soul, involves only a part of my existence.”
“You would like to read my thoughts about you, my feelings for you, but I am your experience in which you live, long before being a person which you could know. Therefore, begin with your heart and soul, I'm partially hidden inside you. External world, outside your heart and soul, involves only a part of my experience.”
“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain. You would like to play the piano, but the rain comes to sit alongside and play an accompaniment. And then the dry weather returns, which is to say there is steam and bright light. People age quickly.”
“You would look less miserable in a selfie from your own funeral.”
Source: Losing our Marbles?
“You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did”
“You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you’re at it? (Julian)”
Source: Fantasy Lover
“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.”
“You would make a very ugly woman" "I would not. I would be stunning”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“You would never catch me in a miniskirt.”
“You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.”
“You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.”