But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.
I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.
Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.
Don’t think about it. Don’t think about what could have been. It’s too unbearable.
It is always awfully easy to say what she would have done after you haven’t done it
If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
God, I wish you could have been there.
They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.
Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
