I Quotes
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“I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.”
“I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.”
“I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.”
“I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every time your picture is taken, a part of your soul is stolen strikes me as a certain truth, because I feel my spirit being sucked out of me, into hundreds of all-seeing lenses that simply want to capture my fear, my anger, my performance.”
Source: Nerve
“I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.”
“I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.”
“I could have been quite happy and contented living in a cottage, if I had been able to share my intellectual interests, and intellectual aspirations with a husband whose strong, protective love would have guided me round the rocks strewn in my way by my own nature, outward circumstances, and the excesses of my own opinions.
[Princess Alice, in a letter to her husband Prince Louis, 3 October 1876]”
Source: Princess Alice: Queen Victoria's Forgotten Daughter
“I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.”
“I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I just feel like I have to give something back. The fact that some people consider my work to be good or strong, it's nice, but I know in my heart that if it's not coming - oftentimes it's probably not coming from the best place.”
“I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?”
Source: The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More
“I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.”
“I could have coached better.”
Source: Simply Devine: Memoirs of a Hall of Fame Coach
“I could have completely lost my mind or became a junkie or abandoned all sense and judgment and committed some rash, stupid act that would have sent me right back into the cage. Instead, I chose to be happy - but not so much for the sake of happiness as for spite.”
“I could have convinced myself I'd snatched someone else's limbs and life and fallen in love with them.”
Source: Beach Read
“I could have danced all night!”
“I could have dated younger men during the last five years, but lovely as some of them were, I didn't want to keep wincing inwardly whenever I referred to something that called attention to my age. Or not be able to share the difficulties of growing older, or have to keep explaining references. I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much to ask, I'll do without.”
Source: To Throw Away Unopened
“I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.”
“I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.”
“I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.”
“I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.”
“I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.”
“I could have easily not run for president, and people would have come up and said, "Oh, man, you would have been a great president." Or even a lousy president. But I never would have known had I not chosen to run. Part of life is seizing the moment.”
“I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.”
“I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.”
“I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.”
Source: Magic Burns
“I could have forgiven him for striking me, but I couldn't forgive that moving me from place to place without even seeing me.”
Source: Notes from Underground & The Double
“I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him.I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous. But this is different. I hate him. I'll never forgive him now.”
Colonel MacAndrew and his wife began to talk to her together. They were astonished. They told her she was mad. They could not understand. Mrs. Strickland turned desperately to me.
"Don't you see? " she cried.
"I'm not sure. Do you mean that you could have forgiven him if he'd left you for a woman, but not if he's left you for an idea? You think you're a match for the one, but against the other you're helpless?”
“I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“I could have forgiven you. Honestly, I would have, because I understand we all make mistakes. But what I will never forget is how you shoved all the blame onto me and declared yourself the innocent victim.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.”
“I could have gone on flying through space forever.”
“I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.”
“I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.”
“I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.”
“I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.”
Source: Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel
“I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.”
“I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me”
“I could have had her right there, in front of everyone. She would have welcomed it.”
“But you didn’t.”
“It wouldn’t have been fair.”
“To who?” My voice was tight with confusion.
“Her. I wouldn’t be thinking about her.”
“What would you be thinking about?”
He groaned, his eyes closing momentarily. He breathed deeply, his exhale carrying another rough sound. “Not what. Who.”
Source: A City of Whispers
“I could have hired someone else. Someone less flawed, perhaps, or at least better at hiding it. But none of them would have had the talent you have with flowers, Victoria. It's truly a gift. When you work with flowers, everything about you changes. The set of your jaw loosens. Your eyes glaze with focus. Your fingers manipulate the flowers with a gentle respect that makes it impossible to believe you are capable of violence. I'll never forget the first day I saw it. Watching you arranging sunflowers at the back table, I felt like I was looking at a completely different girl."
I knew the girl of whom she was speaking. It was the same one I'd glimpsed in the dressing room mirror with Elizabeth, after nearly a year in her home. Perhaps that girl had survived somewhere within me after all, preserved like a dried flower, fragile and sweet.”
Source: The Language of Flowers
“I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. "I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it's just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don't spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.”
Source: Writings and Drawings
“I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.”
“I could have killed you,” I snarl.
“You think you can become a god. You always meddle and change and create. No, that is not the way. What is shall always be. What is known shall always stand.”
“Then you’ve never been in a laboratory!”
Source: Jane Unwrapped
“I could have killed you.” “Or I could have killed you,” Percy said. Jason shrugged. “If there’d been an ocean in Kansas, maybe.” “I don’t need an ocean—” “Boys,” Annabeth interrupted, “I’m sure you both would’ve been wonderful at killing each other. But right now, you need some rest.” Food first,” Percy said. “Please?”
“I could have kissed you months ago, but it wouldn’t have meant anything. I wished for you to see me. And want me. So…did you mean it?” “Yes,” I said, and some unnamed tension inside me eased. “I see you, Tod.”
“I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is.”
“I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.”
“I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted”
“I could have lost it, for all of you but I did not.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld