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“You could offer her a seat,' Arin said.
'Ah, but I only have two chairs in my tent, little Herrani, and we are three. I suppose she could always sit on your lap.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood”
“You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way it is and the way it ought to be. But both are clearly defined as deranged – it’s love among the mad. He’s a psycopath, so is she. She’s prepared to throw him to the dogs until he works out the code, he’s prepared to let her nearly get executed. They’re not really going to buy a house and a Volvo together. I’m not saying this is how people should date!”
“You could only have a relationship of any kind, be it family or friends or lovers, if both people were willing to reach toward each other. It wasn't, as some said, hard work in the sense of being unpleasant or tedious or painful--- that was a myth perpetuated by people with a vested interest in telling you to stay in a terrible relationship--- but it did require effort. You had to try.”
Source: The Enchanted Greenhouse
“You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too.”
“You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.”
“You could paint my nob tartan and call it Throb Roy.”
Source: Confessions from a Nudist Colony
“You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races." But you could fit all the evidence of innate equality on your pinkie fingernail with room to spare.”
“You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what you're going to pay Mexico and use that money and put it towards to the building a wall. If they don't like it, too bad we're go buy the oil.”
“You could penetrate anybody if you consistently put out love. Some people can't handle it.”
“You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.”
“You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a million ways to tell it and no two stories are the same.”
“You could place one product in a first-run telecast, a second product what that program is rerun, and a third product when the show goes into syndication, and another product when it goes on cable.”
“You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.”
“You could play well and still lose.”
“You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.”
“You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.”
“You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.”
“You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?”
Source: Eating: Vintage Minis
“You could probably go all the way back to the first books. I bet people said 'why should you read when you could talk to other people?' The point of reading is that you get to deeply immerse yourself in a person's perspective. Right? Same thing with newspapers or phones or TVs. Soon it will be VR, I bet.”
“You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.”
“You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.”
Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“You could probably think of a hundred little things that would have made this turn out different. But you'd be wrong. A life like your sister’s isn’t some little pony you can turn around any way you want. It’s a train. Once it gets going it’s heavier than heaven and hell put together and it runs on its own track.”
Source: Animal Dreams
“You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.”
“You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back”
Source: The Rest of Her Life
“You could put all the French or Italian you wanted in their names, but you couldn't take Mumbai out of the buildings: the clothes drying outside the windows would remain, and so would the mud streaks from flowerpots on windowsills.”
Source: Milk Teeth
“You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.”
“You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.”
“You could put him in that stuff they store dead animals in.”
Source: Tajrish
“You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!”
“You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that.”
“You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.”
“You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.”
“You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.”
“You could rattle the stars,' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if only you dared.”
“You could rattle the stars,
that's what scares you the most”
Source: Heir of Fire
“You could read the story of his entire life on his face in one glance.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”
“You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.”
Source: Fade
“You could recognize him from any angle: lean tall stature, deep black hair, and a walk that had an air of authority - like no one could possibly have anything to say that was of any importance to him”
Source: The Devil's Eyes
“You could reduce people's fears if you gave them some useful information before things went wrong. It's really important to create a sense of confidence in the public in their own abilities before a disaster because they're the only ones who are going to be there. No one's going to help you for at least 24 to 72 hours. So it would be good to know more about it.”
“You could refer to me as god and the odd curtsey wouldn’t go a miss either”
Source: Wanna Bet?
“You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.”
“You could repay it by treating your life with value. Every time I see you, you’re risking it for something!”
He shrugged. “I’m a Dragon Rider. We hold our lives with open hands.”
It seemed like a terrible way to guard something so precious.”
Source: Sworn
“You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?”
“You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.”
“You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.”
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 say cancer treatment took part of you away, but in doing so it allowed a purer part of who you are to come to the surface.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“You could say I'd never had a true religious moment, the kind where you know yourself spoken to by a voice that seems other than yourself, spoken to so genuinely you see the words shining on trees and clouds. But I had such a moment right then, standing in my own ordinary room. I heard a voice say, Lily Melisa Owens, your jar is open.
In a matter of seconds I knew exactly what I had to do --leave.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees