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“You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.”
“You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 1
“You would never know by looking at them, but Hope’s lips are the softest, juiciest, most kissable lips ever. She thinks there’s nothing special, just like she thinks that most of her outstanding features are standard operating equipment, but someday, Doug will tell her—hers are the lips men kill for. Hope’s smell and her body are familiar and unfamiliar at once—like a whisper or a dream. Her back is more muscular, her arms thinner than he remembers. None of it matters. He loved her then and he loves her now.”
Source: Extreme
“You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.”
“You would never understand, Kim. You think I'm normal; you wish I was.”
“You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.”
“You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“You would not believe half of what is happening in King’s Landing, sweetling. Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim, and the blind. I always anticipated that she would beggar the realm and destroy herself, but I never expected she would do it quite so fast. It is quite vexing. I had hoped to have four or five quiet years to plant some seeds and allow some fruits to ripen, but now . . . it is a good thing that I thrive on chaos. What little peace and order the five kings left us will not long survive the three queens, I fear.”
-Littlefinger”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“You would not believe how loose this car is for two laps after the green. Then, just like that, it's back to how it was before. But, those first few laps, damn, it's loose! JUNIOR NO LIKEY!”
“You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.”
“You would not believe the amount of feedback I've gotten over people binge-watching The West Wing. Most of them have binge-watched it countless times.”
“You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.”
Source: No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life
“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”
Source: Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories
“You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.”
“You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.”
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“You would not have gone. I understand that. You would not have gone up to his room. You would not have asked him for help. You would not have been wandering lost at midnight at age eleven. You would have been safe and dry and asleep, at home with your mother and father who cared about you and had rules, curfews, expectations. Everything for you would have been different. But if you were me, you would have done what I did. You would have gone, hopeful and stupid, to get the money for the taxi.”
Source: The Mars Room
“You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.”
Source: Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
“You would not have understood it. I hardly understood it myself. I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes— too wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them.”
“You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.”
“You would not like me if you knew me.”
“You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.”
Source: 1984
“You would not search the woodside gay
To pick a springtime flower
When all the shuddering country groans
Before the North Wind's power.
Nor would you seek with greedy hand
To pluck your vines in May;
The wine god gives his gift of grapes
When Autumn's on the way.
For God has fixed the season's tasks
And each receives its own:
No power is free to disarray
The order God has shown.”
Source: The Consolation of Philosophy
“You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.”
“You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.”
Source: The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes —
“You would not think someone so afflicted would or could be cheerful, not prone to melancholy or the miseries. Early on she acquired ways of dealing with her life, with life in general. And as she grew older it became evident that she feared almost nothing — perhaps only horses and something she couldn’t quite name, a strange presence of danger not quite or not really a part of the world.”
Source: Miss Jane
“You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.”
Source: The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel
“You would not want me on your football team.”
“You would not want to be in a state of malnutrition during a COVID-19 infection.”
“You would not want to be in hormone deficiency during a COVID-19 infection.”
“You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!”
“You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because they're made of metal and maybe there'll be another war and we'll need the metal. A friend of mine – I quote him in the book – says, 'You have found the source of the river eBay.'”
“You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself. I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.”
“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”
“You would rather have gone on feeling nothing,
emptiness and silence; the stagnant peace
of the deepest sea, which is easier
than the noise and flesh of the surface.”
Source: Interlunar
“You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?”
“You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.”
“You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.”
“you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague of smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“You would steal
their hearts
with chopsticks.
Suck the drip of sin
from their bones.
Scatter rose petals
in their blood
and make them
fucking drinkable.”
Source: Burned Tongues: Poems
“You would think a person could only die once. You would think you would only find you sister's lifeless body once. You would think you would only have to watch your mother's reaction once after finding out her only daughter is dead.
Once is so far from accurate.
It happens repeatedly.
Every single time I close my eyes I see Les's eyes. Every time my mother looks at me, she's watching me tell her that her daughter is dead for the second time. For the third time. For the thousandth time. Every time I take a breath or blink or speak, I experience her death all over again. I don't sit here and wonder if the fact that she's dead will ever sink in. I sit here and wonder when I'll stop having to watch her die.”
Source: Losing Hope
“You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength.”
Source: Dawn of Wonder
“You would think after all the hours I’d spent with Gale– watching him talk and laugh and frown– that I would know all there was to know about his lips. But I hadn’t imagined how warm they would feel pressed against my own. Or how those hands [...] could entrap me… I vaguely remember my fingers, curled tightly closed, resting on his chest.”
“You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.”
“You would think I would recycle by the way I found my last chick...cause all she wants is paper or plastic.”
“You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .”
“You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”
“You would think that after fifteen years of war on terror, waged by a country with nuclear submarines, all terror on earth would be destroyed. I’m shocked that nary a nightmare has made it out alive. Yet somehow, killing the shit out of people – thousands and thousands of people – doesn’t make the living not scared. What you do wind up with are millions of refugees and armies of genocidal fanatics.”
Source: A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School