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“You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!”
“You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.”
“You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.”
“You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.”
“You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.”
“You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that."
"That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.”
Source: Rebel
“You could’ve turned the air conditioning on!” Evaline said from down the hall.
“Oh! You let Sophie turn the AC on but I can’t!” Paisley shouted back.
“You’re surrounded by spirits! You should be cold enough!” - Evaline”
Source: The Scion Princess
“You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.”
Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love
“You could wait your whole life for sense to take shape. Does it matter from here, whether those are seals or bull kelp? Keep looking.”
Source: Every Dress a Decision
“You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound of the typewriter. Of course, this was a pre-electric typewriter, a typewriter that made noise.”
“You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.”
Source: Home: A Short History of an Idea
“You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long theyd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.”
“You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.”
“You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.”
Source: Suite Scarlett
“You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.”
Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series
“You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.”
“You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.”
“You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.”
“You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.”
“You could write a tune to tune a writer”
“You could write a whole list of reasons why you love me, and when you're finished, I'll still think you were probably lying.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.”
“You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.”
“You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“You couldn’t control how your story started, but you can write a few good pages in there”
“You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.”
Source: Wintersmith
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at last, the one that ends in joy.”
Source: The Glass Town Game
“You couldn't find a Jewish sheik?”
Source: A Picture of Guilt
“You couldn't force things apart that are bound at heart.”
“You couldn’t function for five minutes without me.”
Source: Feral
“You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“You couldn’t get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you’re connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you’re not connected to anything.”
Source: Among Others
“You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.”
Source: Kill Me Softly
“You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.”
Source: The Drowned Cities
“You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart”
Source: The Power of One
“You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?)”
Source: Life After Life
“You couldn't possibly."
"I can, and I will."
Heavens. His dark, intense stare nailed her slippers to the gravel path. Her heart pounded in her chest. And then he spoke the gruff, possessive words Penny had started to doubt she'd ever hear.
"I need you, Lady Penelope Campion. I'm not letting you go.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“You couldn't shake my belief in Jesus any more than you could shake my in my mother or father. Because I have known them. If you told me hadn't had a mother and she was't really good and kind to me, I'd just smile and pity you because you never knew her. But I have, you know. I don't blame you, for you've never known Jesus.”
Source: Because of Stephen
“You couldn't stand to see what terrifies warlords.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“You couldn't wake someone when his own dreams turned out better than reality.”
Source: Steelhands
“You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.”
Source: Whispers at Moonrise
“You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.”
“You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.”
“You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.”
“You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
“You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.”
Source: Beauty Queens