Could'a Quotes

#1. Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

Vinod Khosla

#2. Could a man both believe, and not believe, at the same time?

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

Jane D. Hull

#4. The question, then, was how long could a human being stay awake? Keith Richards could party for three days straight, but I wasn't sure if he counted as a human being.

Daryl Gregory

#5. Well, how could a reader notice that? There may be something lacking there I admit. But heavens above, they ought to count themselves lucky! It's full enough of good things as it is, far more than they usually get.

Marcel Proust

#6. What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?

Silvia Hartmann

#7. So you don't love him. Why would you look for
love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?

Catherynne M Valente

#8. How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. No stonger allies no greater friends no bigger fighters of honor could a king behould then these assembled afore me mine brothers mine blood

J.R. Ward

#10. How could a person be caught that way, in an instant, by a glance, the lift of an eyebrow, the curve of an arm? But he was.

Margaret Atwood

#11. What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

Cormac McCarthy

#12. I'm the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die. I pull my shirt over my head and kick off my shoes. "What more could a woman ask?

Karen Marie Moning

#13. Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies
each with two hundred billion stars
then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

Ron Patterson

#14. The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

George Stephanopoulos

#15. Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Stephen Ambrose

#16. Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. ...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.

William Golding

#18. Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?

Leonard Ravenhill

#19. Could a father not marry his son?

Jeremy Irons

#20. The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

Franz Grillparzer

#21. Could a creature who had to look upon ordinary people literally as food and shelter ever understand how strongly those people valued life?

Octavia E. Butler

#22. How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him ...

George Eliot

#23. I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

Paul Weller

#24. That was the way to start, he knew: with unsureness. Only when the mind cracked open its own worldly certainties could a glimpse of light appear.

Joan Slonczewski

#25. Only by massive denial, repression of affect, and severe numbing of our human faculties and sensitivities could a person not feel a sense of remorse, apprehension, and dread.

Jerry S. Piven

#26. I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could a vampire had jois de vivre, Eric had it in spades.
-Sookie

Charlaine Harris

#27. Would-a Could-a Should-a Never Did-a

H.T. Bryer

#28. There was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says: "Who dah?" He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.

Mark Twain

#29. What else could a person do, she thought, staring hard at the darkness, but try to be happy? However confused and wrong-looking the attempt might be. And then whatever happens afterward all you could do was bear it, because whatever you could not bear you had to carry.

Suzanne Berne

#30. How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.

Denis Johnson

#31. Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?

Sierra Simone

#32. Coffe and breakfast with friends. What more could a girl ask for.

Diana Rowland

#33. How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have ... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?

Michael Moore

#34. She thought about her life and how lost she'd felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she'd been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

Douglas Coupland

#35. Suppose the god, the goal of progress, is changing. Then progress becomes impossible. How could we progress toward a goal that keeps receding? How could a runner make progress toward a finish line if someone kept moving it as he ran?

Peter Kreeft

#36. Mick had heard Portia say that
before, but she had thought it was a
tale. How could a colored man be a
doctor?

Carson McCullers

#37. It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Comte De Lautreamont

#38. Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#39. And what he was truly all about. Thirteen years old. I was still slightly stunned by that. Could a thirteen-year-old

James Patterson

#40. Only in America could a Don King happen.

Don King

#41. sexual comments or jokes to him. It would make me sick. I just couldn't understand her strange behavior. How could a sister do this to

E.L. Black

#42. How, I wondered, could a fifteen-year-old boy act like this without getting his ass kicked every time he opened his mouth?

Roland Merullo

#43. How many unsuspected selves could a person have, hidden deep inside? She was beginning to think the number might be infinite.

Stephen King

#44. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.

Henry David Thoreau

#45. What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

R.C. Sproul

#46. How many times could a mother's heart break? An infinite number of times. Each time her children were hurt. She'd long ago accepted the pain of it, as well as the stoicism to never let it show. It was a mother's lot in life.

Lorraine Heath

#47. There was no point in lying. Despite various sources throughout history saying otherwise, no one can do magic on you just because they know your name. If they could, a big portion of the world's inhabitants would be up to their neck in curses.

Steve McHugh

#48. How lucky am I to be right here, How lucky am I indeed. A lifetime of love and song and pie, What more could a person need?

Sarah Weeks

#49. How could a woman who was that beautiful, who smelled that good, who had such perfectly lovely teeth and bright eyes, be so thoroughly, completely, entirely, stark raving mad?" ~ Robert Cameron

Lynn Kurland

#50. Aye, without a doubt, he adored her. He would protect her and love her until he took his last breath on God's beautiful earth. What more could a woman ask for in a man? Strength, honor, good looks were a welcome change to the men she'd known before the

Suzan Tisdale

#51. How could a feeling that leaves you so hollow be a pain that is so sharp?

Miguel Syjuco

#52. Life is the grandest adventure one can go on, isn't it?' said the giant kindly (he seemed to be a very friendly giant). 'What else could a person ask for than just to be alive?'

Will knew exactly what else a person could ask for. 'Monsters,' he said. 'And cake.

Lisa Graff

#53. How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

Leonard Slatkin

#54. Dywen now, he says we need to learn to ride dead horses, like the Others do. He claims it would save on feed. How much could a dead horse eat?

George R R Martin

#55. Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere. Could a person of color win power in other white-majority countries?

Shashi Tharoor

#56. I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

Frances Fox Piven

#57. How could a person have and do all these stupid things
clip coupons and double lock the front door
and then one day just cease to exist?

J. Courtney Sullivan

#58. I could see his lips forming the word, Hey, baby. Want to party?
Yeesh. After a hundred thousand years of verbal evolution, could a guy not produce a better pick up line than that?

Cecily White

#59. And what more could a man hope for but to conquer death?

Brent Weeks

#60. I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?

David Wong

#61. He stood and stepped up behind her. Why not? It's the truth. I like spending time with you. You're strong, beautiful and brave. What more could a man ask for?

Colleen Coble

#62. It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

Jennifer Egan

#63. How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

Rumi

#64. When the monster struck a blow, Conor felt the sting of it in his own fist. When the monster held Harry's arm behind his back, Conor had felt Harry's muscles resisting.
Resisting, but not winning.
Because how could a boy beat a monster?

Patrick Ness

#65. How could a man with so much heart die from a heart attack?

Joan Bauer

#66. What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

S.A. Tawks

#67. Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

Kevin DeYoung

#68. For what could a silent man of five-and-thirty hope, when opposed to a very lively one of five-and-twenty?

Jane Austen

#69. Could a more perfect manufactured object than a tennis ball be imagined? Fuzzy and spherical, squeezable and bouncy, its stitching a pair of matching tongues, its voice on impact a pock in the most pleasing of registers. Dogs knew a good thing, dogs loved tennis balls, and so did she.

Jonathan Franzen

#70. How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?

Girdhar Joshi

#71. I owe everything to golf. Where else could a guy with an IQ like mine make this much money?

Hubert Green

#72. Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude.

Milan Kundera

#73. How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.

Spencer W. Kimball

#74. How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

Alexis De Tocqueville

#75. How could a man become a god?" Nell asked. "By living in an extremely pragmatic society," said Constable Moore after some thought

Neal Stephenson

#76. But how could a mafioso be forced to commit suicide?" I continued.
It only goes to show," she said, " that there are forces in this society more terrifying than the mafia. Ding Caichen was no match for them."
As to what those " terrifying forces" might be, I couldn't begin to imagine.

Ge Fei

#77. Tall, dark and friendly. What more could a girl ask for?

Susan Ee

#78. God is angry at the evil that ruins his children. The question is not, "How dare a loving God be angry?" but rather, "How could a loving God feel anything less?

Max Lucado

#79. How could a homeless kid have a dad who was the god of abundance and wealth? Talk about a cruel joke.

Rick Riordan

#80. How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

Timothy Keller

#81. How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.

Robert Jordan

#82. I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again.

Lauren Scruggs

#83. How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

George A. Smith

#84. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong. The

Haruki Murakami

#85. My heart was beating like mad even as I felt it breaking in two. It was too much, not enough, everything I'd ever wanted and nothing I could have. Could a person die from this?

T. Torrest

#86. But with whom, in the Pooh world, could a sexually and politically aroused Kanga speak?

Frederick C. Crews

#87. Lord, did he have the best smile. It was in turns sweet, seductive, and downright sexy. How could a man look so good without even seeming to try? Laith was charming, enticing, handsome, and fascinating.
If she had to classify him, it would be sex-on-a-stick.

Donna Grant

#88. How could a monster love anything but destruction?

Megan Shepherd

#89. Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?

Dick Cavett

#90. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.

Ernest Hemingway,

#91. New belt out of your arms. Could a' stuffed my mattress with your silky brown hair." He

Beth Lewis

#92. Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.
It means "full of grace".

Ann Voskamp

#93. How long could a single night really be expected to last? How far could you stretch such a small collection of minutes? He was just a boy on a roof. She was just a girl in an elevator.

Jennifer E. Smith

#94. The music, as predicted, blew big time. A live band was going to town up on stage, but really, how many times could they sing about could'a, should'a, would'a, and a dog before people's brains started to liquefy?

Nicole Williams

#95. How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

Alexandra Ripley

#96. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

Sarah Mlynowski

#97. Could a man walk while he was sleeping?

George R R Martin

#98. In 1976, divorce could still raise eyebrows, as could a woman's decision not to have children. Dyslexia wasn't as commonly recognized then, and thus not treated as it is today.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#99. Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

Magenta Periwinkle

#100. How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate.

Margo Lanagan