Top 100 You Would Quotes
#1. Watch your mouth. I pissed on your plan?' he asks incredulously. 'Ava, let me tell you, nowhere in my plan was it written that you would have me restrained and at your mercy. So, it is you who pissed all over my plan.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#2. If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?
Isaac Asimov
#3. If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.
Lorii Myers
#4. That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too.
Terry Pratchett
#5. I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.
Lena Dunham
#6. Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.
Zac Efron
#7. God created you to see what you would show Him.
Katy Tackes
#8. You shouldn't be," Neal said. He lifted his chin and looked directly in her eyes. For the second time in five minutes. For the second time ever. "I'm here because I knew you'd be here. Because I hoped you would be.
Rainbow Rowell
#9. If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#10. If you were able to see us as separate beings, you would see us as approximately one hundred beings.
Esther Hicks
#11. If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
Anne Bronte
#12. People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
Octavia E. Butler
#13. Beneath every goober is a kid. A person. Maybe he's not what you would call 'regular.' But so what? Is that a bad thing?
Jerry Spinelli
#14. Make it your goal never to fail in your desires or experience things you would rather avoid; try never to err in impulse and repulsion; aim to be perfect also in the practice of attention and withholding judgment.
Epictetus
#15. I did all that i could to have my way-to keep you safe from me and our kind-but you would have your own way, like a true princess.
I wanted you,Lucius. I had to have my way.
Beth Fantaskey
#16. I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say.
Mindy Kaling
#17. Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?
Is it fine your way,
With tall moon-daisies alight, and the mole
Busy, and elegant hares at play
By meadow paths where once you would stroll
In the flush of day?
Cecil Day-Lewis
#18. Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.
Joseph Kanon
#19. There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.
Jerome K. Jerome
#20. If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao-Tzu
#21. Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it.
Gustave Flaubert
#22. I don't blame you if you hate me. I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I'll dream of you. -City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare
#23. Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell
the hell of your own meanness.
Charlotte Bronte
#24. Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.
Phil Zuckerman
#25. Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.
T. B. Joshua
#27. The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.
Elena Ferrante
#29. Are you one of those fifty-shades-of-bondage people? I haven't been into that in the past, but I might be willing to try with you. Although I would want to be the one to do the bondaging, while you would have to be the bondagee.
Katie MacAlister
#30. Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.
David Hewson
#31. If I were ever interested in taking a mate, you would be her, Zandy. That's what makes you dangerous because you make me consider it.
Laurann Dohner
#32. The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would ... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.
Alan Furst
#33. Not all choices in life are ones you would like, but those are all that are presented to you. Sometimes you must choose what is better for the ones you love than yourself.
Terry Goodkind
#34. Hooking up with people who do not care about your happiness or you; is a serious and big decision. If you do decide to hook up, you must have a good reason for it just as you would to have a relationship.
Shahla Khan
#35. The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.
Stephen Covey
#36. Ellysetta Baristani." Belliard's voice caused her to stop and turn back around. "Even should you clothe yourself in rags and dirt, you would bring honor to the Fey.
C.L. Wilson
#37. My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
Rachel Joyce
#38. I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
Akio Morita
#39. In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.
Carol Guzy
#40. Well, first of all she's gorgeous and - "
"You're gorgeous," he says softly.
My stomach flips over, but I continue. "And she flirts very openly with you."
"I wish you would flirt very openly with me.
M. Leighton
#41. Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.
Mercedes Lackey
#42. If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
Lord Chesterfield
#43. Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
Abraham Lincoln
#44. If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced.
Ellen J. Barrier
#45. The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.
Gautama Buddha
#46. Jess." He whispers. "That was far from manhandling you sweetheart. I'm just claiming what I want, and make no mistake," He places tender kisses along my jaw leading down to my neck. "I. Always. Get. What. I. Want." He breathes in between kisses. "You would do pretty well to remember that." -Max Wild
S.M. Phillips
#47. Dear girl with the red scarf,
People will come and go in our lives. Most of them we won't give a second thought to as soon as the door closes behind them. But I had always imagined that you would leave the deepest, everlasting mark.
-Mr. Universe.
Maria La Serra
#48. My enemies embarrassed you. So they embarrassed me, Darrow. You told me you would win. But then you lost. And that changes everything.
Pierce Brown
#49. If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
Dwayne Hickman
#50. If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis
#51. When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that.
Steven Adler
#52. I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
Emo Philips
#53. Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.
Michael Fassbender
#54. If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater
#55. Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
Helen Keller
#56. I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
Hisham Matar
#57. Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.
Lloyd Biggle Jr.
#58. You promised you would protect her Nico said.
He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.
Rick Riordan
#59. I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.
India De Beaufort
#60. Believe in yourself.reach down inside.the love you found will set you free.Believe in youself.You would come alive.Have faith in what you do.You'll make it through
Joey McIntyre
#61. If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?
Rick Riordan
#62. And were you cornered by her,
eye to eye,
you would see that
there are still some watchful creatures
whose essence lies unbound by words.
There is still a wilderness.
Toby Barlow
#63. Just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way.
Jodi Picoult
#64. It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
David Byrne
#65. The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
John Irving
#66. Authors are directors of the mind. Think about how you would compose a scene. Make it cinematic.
Kira Hawke
#67. I also know a Were-Pomeranian named Phoebe Fluffenstuff that will gut someone with her samurai sword as casually as you would slice a pie
James R Tuck
#68. You would sell your own people?" the captain asked, not sounding surprised.
"Better a life of servitude than death by starvation.
Melissa Landers
#69. If you would stop worrying about things you don't control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.
Steve Maraboli
#70. We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.
Charlaine Harris
#71. Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao-Tzu
#72. If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
Bob Marley
#73. I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn't give it to you, because I have some great things on it.
Robin Sharma
#74. They founded a society based not upon currency and commodities but on the elementary notion that if you failed to raise enough to eat, you would go hungry.
Shirley Abbott
#75. Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.
Louise Rennison
#76. Letters ... People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.
Henning Mankell
#77. Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.
Alice Randall
#78. I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you want to.
Moriah Densley
#79. If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
Paul J. Meyer
#80. I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.
Chris Evans
#81. I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would think with all of eternity in front of them, they could take the time to learn a simple knot.
M T Anderson
#82. If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
Fran Lebowitz
#83. So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.
Justin Cronin
#84. In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.
Douglas Adams
#85. You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language).
Charlotte Bronte
#86. Life is like Bed of Roses... Start giving away the Roses to make others happy and you would know what is left behind in your bed for you...
John Gabriel
#87. How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.
Hilary Mantel
#89. A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus the temperament to stand back from your money and make rational decisions.
Venita VanCaspel
#90. Do you know what loving you would mean for me? For my life?" "Yes." He kissed her lips gently, then he whispered in her ear, "Love me anyway." "Baojia,
Elizabeth Hunter
#91. Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
Stephen King
#92. My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.
Phillip Lim
#93. I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can't truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you're truly with, and everyone's watching you.
Vinessa Shaw
#95. If you could do what I do then you wouldn't be a hater/writer critiquing me, you would be my opponent facing me on the court.
Behdad Sami
#96. Live your lives in such a way that you would be sure you are productive, effective and satisfied on all levels.
Sunday Adelaja
#97. In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.
Henry Rollins
#98. if someone had noticed the signs in you, would you have sought help?" "No, I guess you're right." "Of course I am." He smiled. "And you need to stop worrying about pleasing everyone. If your family wants to shut you out, so be it.
Anne Patrick
#99. Good Lord, just look at that six pack!" She sighed. "I think you could grate cheese there."
"Fran, if you were with Daniel Craig with no shirt, I think the last thing you would think about would be grating cheese.
Amanda Laneley
#100. Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.
Frederick William Robertson
