Top 100 It Could Be Quotes
#1. In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet.
Simon Singh
#2. It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.
C.J. Langenhoven
#3. What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.
Neige
#4. I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
A.A. Gill
#5. Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.
Lauren Henderson
#6. So much for my one and done strategy. Guess I'll be here for a while. It could be worse. It could be a fat old man I'm having to guard instead of a cute teenage girl.
Brittany DeLys
#7. Nay, you attract mayhem, chaos, and anarchy wherever your delicate feet tread. Around you there is no such thing as a coincidence."
"Why do you think it is always me, Director?" Eliza protested. "It could be Books. My father always told me to beware the quiet ones!
Philippa Ballantine
#8. In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
Robin McKinley
#9. If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
Grimes
#10. It could be argued that all perfume is born out of shame; a self-consciousness of our natural odour.
Kathleen Tessaro
#11. The thing is, I love a celebrity interview. Doesn't matter how big or how small. It could be Hillary Clinton or the guy who made it to the third round of 'Popstars,' I'll read it.
Sharon Horgan
#12. We need a place, just for us. It could be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it. It might be a whole secret country, and you and I could be the rulers of it.
Katherine Paterson
#13. There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport ... it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.
John F. Kennedy
#14. It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.
Miranda Otto
#15. It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
Taryn Manning
#16. Maybe that's why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.
J.T. Lawrence
#17. It would be a better land if only it could be ruled sensibly.
Seth Dickinson
#18. Johnson and I sent Holden to mediate because he was the perfect person to show what a clusterfuck it was out there. How ugly it could be.
James S.A. Corey
#19. Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
Jason Silva
#20. The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.
Rory Kinnear
#21. I think the women that we dress, the women who buy our clothes, they have a certain strength. It could be about the clothes, it could be about themselves. It's just attractive.
Francisco Costa
#22. We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.
Joe Sutter
#23. It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions.
Stephen King
#24. I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#25. My fault? It could be. So much was my fault, the result of my actions or decisions. Sabina
Faith Hunter
#26. It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.
Margaret Way
#27. I'm sure in the past I've said marriage is stupid. Marriage makes someone sign a contract promising something they really can't deliver. I'm sure I will again say marriage is dumb. But I can also imagine why it could be lovely. There's something beautiful about truly being there for another person.
Amy Schumer
#28. When I was a kid, if someone had asked who I'd meet if it could be anyone in the world, it would've been Liam Brady.
Tony McCoy
#29. We energetically attract what we haven't worked out in ourselves. When vampires evoke intensely judgmental reactions from us, it could be they are mirroring aspects of our personalities we don't like or completely understand.
Judith Orloff
#30. Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.
Cecelia Ahern
#31. It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.
Simon Sinek
#32. He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.
Stephen King
#33. When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.
Jay Maisel
#34. Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet
Nicholas Stern
#35. When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You've just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan [Freeman] says, it's a pat on the back, so great you'll take it and then move on.
Clint Eastwood
#36. The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.
Naomi Campbell
#37. Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.
Scott Westerfeld
#38. Helplessness was a strange experience, new to her; she had never found it hard to face things and make decisions; but she was not dealing with things - this was a fog without shapes or definitions, in which something kept forming and shifting before it could be seen ...
Ayn Rand
#39. I can't get enough of this guy called Baths. He's a total L.A. dude and really young as well. It's super-electronic, but with almost Hall & Oates-style songwriting. Without the context of the production, it could be super-cheesy, but it has amazing harmonies.
Jamie Cullum
#40. He kisses like ... like it could be his job." Margot giggles and lifts the spoons off her eyes. "Like a male prostitute?
Jenny Han
#41. I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.
Jacki Weaver
#42. She had to remember that there was power and magic in life: that when the sun laid a ray as warm as a hand on her head as they left the graveyard, it could be an unseen hand, reaching out to her with love. Only changed, and not strange forever.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#43. It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.
Bruce Hoffman
#44. I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
LaToya Jackson
#45. I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#47. It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.
Elizabeth Scott
#48. It could be argued that death is inherently absurd, and that grinning is not necessarily an inappropriate response. I mean absurd in the sense of ridiculous, unreasonable. One second a person is there, the next they're not.
Alison Bechdel
#49. Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.
Hill Harper
#50. Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.
Jack Davenport
#51. Your problem + It Could Be Worse = Gratitude
In all that you are going through learn to put
IT COULD BE WORSE at the end of your problems. You will start leaving a brighter and happier life ... when you do.
Timothy Pina
#52. Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#53. Time went by. It could be proved that it did, although so little happened.
Elizabeth Taylor
#54. It might be, it could be ... it is! A home run!
Harry Caray
#55. I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.
Jorma Taccone
#56. I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
Michael Imperioli
#57. The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
W.G. Sebald
#58. see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.
Colson Whitehead
#59. 1914 ... Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's ... that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.
G. Edward Griffin
#60. When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth, or veins in their skin that are a little too visible, or a really dramatic lazy eye. The first guy I ever kissed had a water head.
Amy Sedaris
#61. The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.
Ken Follett
#62. The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#63. There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Jensen Ackles
#64. If these things are alchemical," said Sofia, "I'd better be the one to have a look at them."
"If it could be dangerous, I'm going as well," said Lorenzo.
"And me," said Conte
"Great! We can all go! It'll be fun!" Locke waved his tied hands at the door. "But hurry it up, for fucks sake.
Scott Lynch
#65. Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.
'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.
John Steinbeck
#66. Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.
Swami Vivekananda
#67. Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
Rani Mukerji
#68. Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore ... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
Guy Kawasaki
#69. I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true - nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
Amy Hempel
#70. Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.
Arthur W. Pink
#71. With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
John Burnside
#72. we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact,
we may not be choosing anything.
It could be that anything's decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices.
Free will may be an illusion
Haruki Murakami
#73. Well, it's nowhere near as good as it could be, but I suppose it's as good as I can make it right now.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#74. My hair is always at its best in New York. I don't know what's in the water. It could be mousse.
Ellen DeGeneres
#75. The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.
Paul Graham
#76. The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope
#77. Her heart just about stopped. "Us?" she asked in shock. "There is no us. There's a you. And there's a me. And okay, so sometimes we get crazy and become a very momentary us but it's not real." "It could be," he said. She gaped at him, completely gobsmacked.
Jill Shalvis
#78. I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.
Nicole Krauss
#79. There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
Margaret Thatcher
#80. Living had little use for me other than how it could be funneled into dance.
Twyla Tharp
#81. But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.
Tim Ferriss
#82. You have to be aware that whenever you leave your house, you're probably going to be photographed by someone somewhere. Maybe those pictures will surface. Maybe they won't. Maybe those videos will surface. Maybe they won't. But you have to always be aware that it could be happening.
Megan Fox
#83. I just think religion is something ... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
Daron Malakian
#84. Are you staying with us? It could be dangerous,' said William, realizing that he was saying this to a vampire iconographer who undied every time he took a picture.
Terry Pratchett
#85. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.
Cornel West
#87. Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
Prince Harry
#88. They said 'if you have a 3D movie, we'll buy it' because they want it. For maybe two weeks I really thought of a silent, black and white 3D movie and I thought it could be great. I imagined it as a very special image, a very new image, but fortunately, I didn't have to do it.
Michel Hazanavicius
#89. Wish that I will succeed in life, I replied. And I thought that a shooting star, though it could be beautiful, was a star that was afraid of shining and was fleeing as far away as possible. A bit like me.
Joel Dicker
#90. I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.
Michael Gray
#91. There is no girl we are not always already making into a woman from the moment she is born - making a city in the dirt next to the boot of a man. It could be rage or love in his feet. The girl could be me or any other girl.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#92. I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
Barbara Mandrell
#93. I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. (Naipaul...but it could be me if the thousands of tweets are anything to go by.)
Brian O'Hare
#94. It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
Blair Underwood
#95. I don't think stand-up is being appreciated as much as it could be and I don't think it has for a long time. There's some great stand-up comics who come to a town and if they're not a name, they don't attract a crowd but in reality there are brilliant people out there.
Mitch Hedberg
#96. Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job.
Nikki Cox
#97. A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#98. A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
who's hungry and where their mouth is or
who's out of work and where the job is or
who's broke and where the money is or
who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.
Woody Guthrie
#99. Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.
Stacie Orrico
#100. I press my face against his chest, inhale his scent, take comfort from it. "I'm so sorry, Victor. I'm not sure I realized how truly awful this is for you."
"It could be worse. I might not have you."
I sink against him.
"Trust me," he whispers.
J.A. London
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