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“You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.”
“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”
“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.”
“You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.”
“You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.”
Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
“You don't study photography, you just do it.”
“You don't study photography. You do it.”
“You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.”
“You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.”
“You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.”
“You don't sweat much for a fat girl.”
“You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.”
Source: Boy Toy
“You don't systematically disagree with the President of the United States or intervene in American politics and expect that he is going to bless your name.”
“You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.”
“You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?”
“You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.”
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
“You don't take a picture, you make a picture.”
“You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.”
“You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.”
“You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.”
“You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.”
“You don't take on anything unless there's fear.”
“You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.”
Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“You don't take your newborn baby, put that baby on your lap, and say, "Now listen, kid, you were born in sin, you're not worth anything, and you've got to pray for mercy." That's not going to raise a healthy adult. And that's what we do Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.”
“You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.”
“You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.”
Source: Be My Baby
“You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.”
Source: Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy
“You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.”
“You don't teach information in a writing workshop.”
“You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.”
Source: All Blacks Don't Cry: A Story of Hope
“You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.”
Source: Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House
“You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.”
“You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.”
“You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.”
“You don't think about it that often, but you don't realize how many of your friends have come and gone. It makes you feel very fortunate.”
“You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.”
“You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.”
“You don't think I can fight." Tessa said, drawing back and matching his silvery gaze with her own. "Because I'm a girl." "I don't think you can fight because you're wearing a wedding dress", said Jem. "For what it's worth, I don't think Will could fight in that dress either." "Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat'a. "But I would make a radiant bride.”
“You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.”
“You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.”
Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts
“You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!”
“You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.”
“You don't think of the devil who's inside.”
“You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.”
“You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose”
“You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.”
Source: The best of Frederik Pohl