Top 100 You Could Be Quotes
#1. You resist my words because of your own insecurities and the fear that right now you could be the God that you truly are.
Jamila Hammad
#2. You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart, Jewish, Keynesian have?
Paul Samuelson
#3. A curious paradox here: hand in hand with the political rebellion of the age went a certain omnisexual freedom, but that meant you could sleep with anyone, not that you could be gay.
Paul Monette
#4. Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.
Sara Henderson
#5. In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!
Vivienne Westwood
#6. It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidoscope color. It was that Trixie knew she couldn't have loved Jason this hard if he hadn't loved her that way too.
Jodi Picoult
#7. I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#8. Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.
John Fowles
#9. I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
Muhammad Ali
#10. I see that you laugh rarely though you could be naturally joyful , you control your features , and you fear on the presence of men to smile too cheerfully , speak too freely or move too quickly.
Charlotte Bronte
#11. I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#12. I say long and lean as opposed to tall, because you could be 5 four and look long and lean.
Tim Gunn
#13. One bite, Caleb, that's all it will take.' 'Once more inside you could be all it takes,' he whispered in her ear, making her stomach flip. 'Right now, I'm willing to take the risk. Are you?
Lindsay J. Pryor
#14. If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?" As
Warren Berger
#15. [Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say "you *might* be my witnesses," or "you *could* be my witnesses," or even "you *should* be my witnesses." He said "you *will* be my witnesses.
Charles R. Swindoll
#16. Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
Nigel Kennedy
#17. Anger you have locked up in you, and that's healthy. I just think you could be a little more judicious
Jonathan Tropper
#18. It just doesn't seem right to spend your entire life drinking, when you could be exploring the world."
"Or," Zhy said as he hefted a mug to his lips, "it doesn't seem right to be risking your life running down warlocks when you could be sitting on a nice, warm bar stool.
Martin D. Gibbs
#19. But you can't pass up a private school education. You'd go to university afterward. You could become a researcher, a scientist, a professor, an inventor. Isn't that what you want? You're the smartest person I know. You could be anything you want.
Khaled Hosseini
#20. 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
#21. You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months ... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.
Caprice Bourret
#22. You could be laughing one day about the same issues that you're crying about the next day, so that's life.
Taraji P. Henson
#23. Only you could be more important than what I wanted ... what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.
Stephenie Meyer
#24. A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
Stephen King
#25. Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain of, certain to the bone, or if you could be that to someone else.
Tana French
#26. It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
William Hague
#27. What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.
David Allen
#28. You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#29. People want to project their own insecurities on others, but I refuse to allow them to put that on me. Just because you don't think that you could be the best in the world doesn't mean that I shouldn't have the confidence to believe I can do anything.
Ronda Rousey
#30. Food can be a poison or a cure. Why would you choose to ingest toxins when you could be taking the world's best detox medicine. For the purposes of detoxification, let me be clear; always try to eat organic.
Woodson Merrell
#31. There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.
Donald Glover
#32. Asha grasped many of her own contradictions, among them that you could be proud of having spared your offspring hardship while also resenting them for having been spared.
Katherine Boo
#33. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seeing them all come true. You were meant for something more. Even if you could be known the world over, what does it matter if you have no time to be known by God?
Kevin DeYoung
#34. She took his hand, and he smiled down at her. "No mating yet?"
"It depends on how...persuasive you could be."
"Hot damn, woman. I can be persuasive.
Terry Spear
#35. You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean
#36. If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.
Tyler Hamilton
#37. The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
Aaron Ciechanover
#38. I told you what a good little whore you could be. Your talent has been wasted.
Jesse Joren
#39. Though I feel I should warn you that you that you could be here for a while. My friends aren't really known for their punctuality.
Amie Kaufman
#41. If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you're taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It's a zero-sum game.
Cal Newport
#42. Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you're living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.
Shawn Phillips
#43. I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
Elia Kazan
#44. Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.
Lisa Kleypas
#45. An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.
Trent Reznor
#46. I knew Faulkner very well. He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless you were a fourteen-year-old nymphet. Then you could be a great friend!
Truman Capote
#47. We are defined by our enemies - but also we can choose them. Make an enemy of hatred, Jorg. Do that and you could be a great man, but more importantly, maybe a happy one. There's
Mark Lawrence
#48. We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.
Thomas Beecham
#49. Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
Valerie Simpson
#51. I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.
Francesca DiMattio
#52. Why study or try to change the world on a Friday afternoon when you could be out enjoying the sun?
Nicholas Sparks
#53. You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.
Haruki Murakami
#54. When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.
Robert A. Heinlein
#55. At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free.
You could be anyone, he thought.
You could be anyone.
Dan Chaon
#56. If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox
#57. Don't You Get it? This very second you could be doing something you love and dream about doing. So do it! Now!
Anonymous
#58. And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.
Sarah J. Maas
#59. Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.
Louie Schwartzberg
#60. Sci-fi fans are the best fans you can have. You could be doing the worst piece of tat which might have a robot or vampire in, and some people will become obsessed by it and know every little detail. 'Being Human' has crossed over from sci-fi fans to being a drama that everyone can enjoy.
Russell Tovey
#61. Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
Albert Einstein
#62. You could be great, you know, it's all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.
J.K. Rowling
#63. It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you gotta know the roots to really grow. It's like knowing your parents, it's like knowing your culture, so you could be proud of that culture and take it to the world.
Common
#64. I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
Nigel Barker
#65. Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.
John Banville
#66. You could BE somebody," he said, focusing a tight shot on her face.
"Honey," she said, mugging for the camera like an old time movie queen, "I already am somebody.
Danielle Ganek
#67. Dinner was a lonely affair. Funny how you could be surrounded by your family, your blood, and yet feel totally alone. Even with the sun shining on the sparkling shores of English Bay and Josh at my side, I felt like I was invisible, and in a dark, dark place.
Karina Halle
#68. And if, for some awful reason, you forget that money is a game, a make-believe concept that some people invented, you could be led back into the complex layered world of Should. And here, the loss isn't a financial one. You are the cost. Is it worth it?
Elle Luna
#69. Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.
Bootsy Collins
#70. To become a champion, you must first think like a champion, and the best way to think like a champion is start talking like a champion. So start talking today like the champion you could be, and your thoughts and actions will follow.
Hal Elrod
#71. I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.
Joey McIntyre
#72. I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.
Elsie De Wolfe
#73. You could be stung, but you could also sting back. He believed that sincerely.
Stephen King
#74. I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.
John Cusack
#75. I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane and never know it." "I would much rather people know my music than know my name.
Eric Hutchinson
#76. People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.
Cate Blanchett
#77. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return. More troubling to him than his
Hanya Yanagihara
#78. Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours. And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing that you could be the author instead.
Ava Dellaira
#79. Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.
Francis Chan
#80. In the way our world is, everybody shoulder to shoulder, people knowing everything about you at first glance, a good veil is your tinted limousine window. The unlisted number for your face. Behind a good veil, you could be anyone.
Chuck Palahniuk
#81. And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing you could be the author instead.
Ava Dellaira
#82. I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
Bill Bailey
#83. There's no magic potion to remove you from a tough situation than your own self conviction and no poison as dangerous as self doubt. In no one has done it so far, you could be the one showing the way!
Anuranjita Kumar
#84. There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.
Lawrence Taylor
#85. You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire.
Do you really think so?'
Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.'
I don't like the wood elves.'
They're okay. They're misunderstood.
Janet Evanovich
#86. When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
Christopher Nolan
#87. Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.
Deanna Dunagan
#88. I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down.
Helena Bonham Carter
#89. Using one's beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that's how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.
Shannon Celebi
#90. I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk
#91. Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.
Sue Monk Kidd
#92. You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.
Meek Mill
#93. No matter what the situation is ... close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.
Deepak Chopra
#94. Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.
Calvin Trillin
#95. She licked her parched lips, moistening them, preparing them. "You could lose your job."
"You could be expelled."
"It's unethical."
"Dangerous."
His mouth hovered only millimeters over hers. "We doing this?"
She hooked her arms around his neck. "God yes.
Shelly Bell
#96. My mom,Sarah used to tell me that you could be anywhere when you life begins but you wouldn't know it until it changed everything you thought you knew
Shey Stahl
#97. We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.
Rudy Giuliani
#98. Science says that and sociable and not in both shoes you could be happy.
Deyth Banger
#99. You could be a very trustworthy person. It doesn't matter! If they just met you, they decide to trust you or not in the 1st 3 - 4 seconds...
Assegid Habtewold
#100. One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'
Jason Ritter
