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“You could die," she whispered. "Everything dies," he whispered back. "I'm afraid of so much more than dying.”
Source: The Last Namsara
“You could die this day, so you should strive to do your best while you still lived. - Richard Cypher Rahl”
Source: Blood Of The Fold
“You could die tomorrow, you don't think you should kiss her today?”
Source: These Broken Stars
“You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight.”
“You could do a lot with common sense, at sea. And you could do precious little without it.”
Source: The Cruel Sea
“You could do a lot worse.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“You could do a portrait,” he suggested, looking back at the canvas, envisioning his boss’s hands stained with paint. “The important thing isn’t the drawing itself, but what it represents to you.”
Regine took a step towards him, tilting his head slightly to one side.
“Are you offering yourself as a model?”
Source: Solo Un Sirviente Más
“You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.”
“You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot, live in a coed dorm, have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!”
“You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
“You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.”
“You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the areas of timorousness were fairly laid out. Race relations. Sex. Politics. There was a whole conglomeration of taboo themes. And even to date, though television has become a much freer medium, it's still far less free, far less creatively untrammeled than are the movies. They're infinitely more adult in that respect.”
“You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.”
Source: The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying
“You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”
“You could dress it up with a sequined headband,” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something blue and sparkly. “Just a thought.” “Resist the urge, Alec.” Simon was sitting on the edge of a low wall with Maia beside him, though she appeared to be deep in conversation with Aline. “You’ll look like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu.” “There are worse things,” Magnus observed.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“You could drink hard liquor in the middle of a school day without people assuming you were an alcoholic underachiever. Strange how in America in the 1950s, at the height of its industrial and imperial power, men drank double-martinis for lunch. Now, in its decline, they drank fizzy water. Somewhere something had gone terribly wrong.”
“You could drive a rental car until you don't want it. Just get out of it while it's moving and just walk away. No, I don't feel like being in that car any longer. Just call Hertz. Hi, your car is drifting into the intersection of 28th and Broadway, if you're interested. It's now your problem.”
“You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“You could drop me off in the middle of a sea of people, and I'm happy.”
“You could drop Tony Stark naked in the middle of the desert and he'd fly out in a jet made of sand and cactus needles. It's not his *stuff* that gives him power. It's his *brain*. Try using yours. You'll be amazed the difference it makes.”
Source: Daredevil: Back in Black, Vol. 1: Chinatown
“You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.”
Source: Super Sad True Love Story
“You could easily identify Blaine’s guys; they looked like white nationalists, but not these Breitner boys. These guys were your next-door neighbors, wife, two-point-five kids, a dog, a nice car, and a house in the ‘burbs.”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal envisioned a human being that has never been seen before in film: a black man in circumstances that he does not like, who is passionate - persistent - in turning it around.”
“You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It's so full that I can't really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.”
“You could easily tell that hardwork and perseverance go hand in hand with patience. We often hear people say patience is worth it, yet we don't practice it. I did and look how well it worked out for me.”
“You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.”
“You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings.”
“You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.”
“You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me:
Be too nice, and people take you for a dummy.”
“You could explain how a patisserie operates, give baking or entertaining tips, or just be having fun with customers." Tarts & Turnovers”
Source: Tarts & Turnovers
“You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat.”
Source: All-Night Pharmacy
“You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.”
“You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.”
“You could feel the war getting ready in the sky that night. The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds, like the enemy discs, and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire; that was how the night felt.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.”
Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)
“You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we wouldn't have had to write our sketch.”
“You could fill three lifetimes with the things people say about you when you're not there.”
“You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.”
“You could fire me and send me away. Then where would I be? You know what happens to girls like me, who have no home to speak of? We end up riding the trains westward, picking up work at brothels, being worthless women in the eyes of society. Castle Moreau is a terrifying place, Mr. Tremblay. Your grandmother is horrific, and you, sir, are nothing short of a beast behind a desk ready to spring on me. So no, I do not speak my mind. I bite my tongue to stay alive, stay employed, and stay free of the defiling way of life many women in my shoes find themselves."
She bit her tongue, contrary to what she'd just said, and everything inside of Daisy quivered at the realization. Perhaps her red hair did hide a smart wit after all, but a smart wit didn't imply a smart mouth, and she'd shown little wisdom in allowing Lincoln Tremblay to goad her into an honest outburst.”
Source: The Vanishing at Castle Moreau
“You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming you must be gay - that was literally the last place many people went.”
“You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.”
“You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.”
“You could get a real job," he said with a little smile.
"Fuck that," I said emphatically. "Anyway, doing what? I've got a high school diploma from years ago and no employment history whatsoever. If I got an interview for McDonald's, what am I supposed to tell them? My idea of interpersonal skills is taking two dicks at the same time.”
Source: Solitude
“You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.”
“You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.”
“You could get traction from someone, and someone else could get the traction from you. It all depends on what we are chasing.”
Source: Quantraz
“You could get whiplash trying to watch time go by.”
Source: Zorrie
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.
I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotle's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.”
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.”
“You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels