Top 100 Could Be Quotes
#1. It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.
Michael Haneke
#2. I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
Francis Chan
#3. I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or black. It could be anything. But it's hard in Hollywood, because sometimes it's all about the box office. Or all about looks and things like that. It's not about the story that they have to tell.
Rutina Wesley
#5. If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
Thomas Pynchon
#6. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
Hunter Hayes
#7. She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
Dean Koontz
#8. In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.
Yoko Ono
#9. Sometimes you are stuck being the person you are and not the person you were. Or could be.
Karina Halle
#10. The Bostonians are very well in their way. Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. Their Common is no common thing - and the duck pond might answer - if its answer could be heard for the frogs.
Edgar Allan Poe
#11. I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
Kate Smith
#12. Modernity could be identified with the gradual disappearance of ritual, of those kind of communal bonds founded upon a symbolically shared sense of guilt.
Thomas Brockelman
#13. Before we left them, I slanted a glance at Leila, and mischievously said, "No one thought what you just did could be done, you know. You'll earn the nickname of The Dragon Slayer."
Vlad glowered at me, but Bones laughed.
Jeaniene Frost
#14. Really, he could be anywhere now, because he wants to be nowhere.
David Levithan
#15. Funny how people could be around you for so many years, and be so off the mark.
Lauren Oliver
#16. Is that it?"
"No. That's a wall."
"It could be disguised."
"You're not very good at looking for things, are you?"
"I'm good at looking for walls. Look, I found another one.
Derek Landy
#17. And without knowing exactly what his sin was he felt full well that living was not a sufficient atonement for it or that this atonement was in itself a sin, calling for more atonement, and so on, as if there could be anything but life, for the living.
Samuel Beckett
#18. it's funny how the same structure could imprison you and the next moment it could be where you felt safest. It was all perspective. Abel
Kenan Hillard
#19. I love the one that can't be loved. Because I just didn't have the luck to love the one that could be loved.
Leydi Morfa
#20. I could be unraveling wherever I'm traveling, even to foreign shores.
Bob Dylan
#21. The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4
Os Guinness
#22. I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
Amanda Smith
#23. No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.
Shunryu Suzuki
#24. You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#25. ... for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.
Hermann Broch
#26. How could she truly appreciate the gentleness of Stephen's touch if she didn't know the extent of how rough he could be with her?
April Vine
#27. You could be knocked down a peg or two."
... "Baby, I'm so far up the latter there aren't any pegs under me to be knocked down.
"Wow," she said. "That's a new one."
"You loved it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#28. God's intentions could be discerned by the careful study of even the smallest, most seemingly insignificant events. And the past weeks' events were anything but small and insignificant.
Ann Leckie
#29. What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
Paul Fleischman
#30. So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.
Michael Ondaatje
#31. If you start to give of yourself, be it ever so simple a fashion, the world will observe your spirit and show you many needs that you can supply. There are a hundred ways of giving away little margins of time you will never miss, which could be riches to someone.
David Dunn
#32. Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.
John Christopher
#33. We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.
Joel Osteen
#35. Thanks for being here for me," she whispered.
He started to answer flippantly, but stopped when he realized how much it meant to him as well, that he could be there for her. "Anytime, babe."
And for the first time in his life, he actually meant it.
Jill Shalvis
#36. any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By
Julian Stockwin
#37. If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn't have believed it.
Nick Hornby
#38. If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.
Lillian B. Rubin
#40. If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.
Viggo Mortensen
#41. I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#42. [O]ne should never wait for life. Dare to live dangerously. You never know what mysteries could be waiting in the shadows.
Elizabeth Hunter
#43. Yet I wouldn't trade it. I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant I could be with Bella.
Stephenie Meyer
#44. The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
Ernest Hemingway,
#45. I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner - your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn't have to be the person you marry.
Cheryl Cole
#46. If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
Alan Hirsch
#47. Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
Eric Temple Bell
#48. I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.
George Benson
#49. Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.
Esther Hicks
#50. And what constituted a cure? What was healing for a damaged human being? Who needed help and who didn't? And anyway, was there really a cure for the truly hurt? People could be totaled, just like cars.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#51. As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There
Penelope Wilcock
#52. Unfortunately people sometimes suppress their lust. And it's not only sex. It could be lusting for anything really, anything that's supposedly very bad for you but can be good for you, too.
Sune Rose Wagner
#53. Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online
Torkel Brekke
#54. Another husband could be found and with That husband another son. But I have no mother now. I have no father. I cannot bring another brother to the world.
Sophocles
#55. There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they're tiny or warped. But even if they're invisible, they could affect what we actually observe in the universe.
Lisa Randall
#56. The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.
Sauli Niinisto
#57. I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.
Thomas Eakins
#58. A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#59. If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged
Terry Pratchett
#60. No," said the demon. "A witch is just a girl who knows her mind. I am better than a witch. But look at the great orgy coming up like a rose around me. No night in Hell could be as bright.
Catherynne M Valente
#61. Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
Robert Green Ingersoll
#62. Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.
Lori Loughlin
#63. I'm not suggesting that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources.
Suzanne Lee
#64. I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.
Georges St-Pierre
#65. Something she knew she did not have the right to ask him about. But she wished - oh, how she
wished - that when he was ready to face his fears, she could be the one to help him.
Julia Quinn
#66. I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.
Rosamund Lupton
#67. The world could be a conniving harlot, as evil as a demon, but love would defeat her, every single time. Love never failed.
Gena Showalter
#68. My goals have always been to inspire people to be the best they could be, on and off the field.
Tyrone Willingham
#69. Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
Carroll Quigley
#70. Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.
Dave Morin
#71. I was blinded by whispered promises and I never realised how cruel a woman could be until it was too late.
Emma Russell
#72. He'd told me the world could be the most lovely place you could imagine, so long as your imagination was fueled by love.
Sebastien De Castell
#73. Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul's face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.
Frank Herbert
#74. We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet.
Joseph Stefano
#75. What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.
Joshua Ferris
#76. After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
Barbara Deming
#77. God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#78. Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
This is right.
Veronica Roth
#79. If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
Ben Elton
#80. This was mere unfounded prejudice
that seems obvious to me
because neither before nor after existed, nor any place to immigrate from, but there were those who insisted that the concept of "immigrant" could be understood in the abstract, outside of space and time.
Italo Calvino
#81. I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
Kate Mulgrew
#82. I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to be considered, would ever conceive that everything could be summed up in a single mathematical formula, however complex.
Ronald Fisher
#83. If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black
#85. I once heard [Gerald] Feinberg suggest that many of Manhattan's 1970s social problems could be solved by forbidding anyone who earned less than, say, $10,000 per year to live there. It had not occurred to him, apparently, that this excluded many of the people who worked at the university.
Emanuel Derman
#86. The United States, you know, people - one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924 was so that they could be drafted. And they have been extensively drafted.
Winona LaDuke
#87. We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
Chelsea Clinton
#88. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
Parker Stevenson
#89. All the things magicians do
Could be done by me and you
Freely, if we only knew.
C.S. Lewis
#90. All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.
Helena Rubinstein
#91. I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Ray Winstone
#92. ...the coldness settling in his stomach confirmed a truth that had been hiding at the back of his mind. He sat devastated by it, wondering how he could be such a fool. He and Kate were so far apart he might as well be in love with the moon.
M. Ruth Myers
#93. When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
Aaron Sorkin
#94. When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.
Seth
#95. Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily utilize Javascript to create an interactive Internet; sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail could be crippled without it.
Ben Shapiro
#96. He accepted me for who I was, scabs and all. But he refused to accept that that was all I was. And when someone believes in you, goes out on a limb for you when they have no obligation to do shit - it has an impact. It made me want to look in the mirror and see the man he knew I could be. And
Emma Chase
#97. We may not be responsible for another's addiction or the life history that preceded it, but many painful situations could be avoided if we recognized that we are responsible for the way we ourselves enter into the interaction. And that, to put it most simply, means dealing with our own stuff.
Gabor Mate
#98. After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.
Chuck Palahniuk
#99. Everything you needed to know about the South could be found in either Savannah or New Orleans.
Kami Garcia
#100. Any place could be a cage. And maybe, with the right person, any place could be a home.
Theresa Romain
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