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“You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.”
“You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.”
“You'd come in in the morning and put your contact lenses in and they'd put your makeup on. I tried to stay out of the sun, because the more color you had, the more makeup you had to wear, to cover your color.”
“You'd commit suicide trying to read my mind”
“you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.”
“you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.”
Source: Baby Proof: A Novel
“You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!”
“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley”
“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”
“You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.”
“You'd get on the plane; and every single person is somebody really, really famous. It just killed me. On one flight you'd have Linda Gray, O.J. Simpson, Robert De Niro, Carol Burnett, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds... and Francis Ford Coppola.”
“You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?" "Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly cheaper for a while. Like...slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.”
“You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.”
“You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?”
“You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat”
“You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.”
“You'd have a quality insurance department, where they're making sure there aren't any glitches or weird things, and that the guests have a great experience and seamless experience. You'd also have security. So, we laid out the corporate structure, and then we cherry-picked from that the people who would be brought into the most conflict and the most day-to-day relationship with each other and with the hosts.”
“You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.”
“You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.”
“You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.”
“You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile. "Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light. "No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in." "And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena." "Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says.”
“You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants.”
“You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.”
“You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.”
“You'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to think that this earth that we live in only has 6000 years of existence. It just doesn't.”
“You'd have to be here to believe it!”
“You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.”
“You'd have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].”
“You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.”
“You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.”
“You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.”
“You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.”
“You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good”
“You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!”
“You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.”
“You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at you fast and it's timely and then five minutes later we're on to something else. It caters to our desire for instant gratification. And I think blogs also have fluidity that's exciting. You have a lot of real enthusiastic music fans for the most part that are writing sometimes for a large audience, and I think certain blogs have a little too much power over what someone likes or doesn't like.”
“You'd know if I was the de-facto leader of the Democratic Party, because you'd go down to Walgreen's and buy a pack of blunts.”
“You'd learn more about the world by lying on the couch and drinking gin out of a bottle than by watching the news.”
“You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.”
Source: The Lighthouse
“You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.”
“You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles”
“You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.”
“You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.”
“You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires.”
“You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.”
“You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.”