#could

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#air #bare #bosnia #changed #clark

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#bear #children #could #death #east

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#automobile #could #destroy #did #many

I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies. ↗

— Hollis Stacy

#around #babies #college #completely #could

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse. ↗

— Jo Brand

#also #audience #could #felt #had

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#borrow #buy #could #down #margin

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#could #discreet #i #if i could #into

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#american #aria #believe #could #cuss

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#after #book #could #expect #female

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#ago #because #broke #could #did