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If he had been a terrorist he could have wiped out the royal family,
DAILY EXPRESS That could have prevented the terrorist attack. But they weren't fulfilled.
ALEXANDER TORSHIN The attacks of September 11th could have been prevented if the right combination of skill, cooperati...
BOB GRAHAM These two incidents in the jail could have been prevented.
RICK DUNLAP![]()
In the last week, we have learned that since the 7th of July two further terrorist plots have been p...
TONY BLAIR![]()
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN![]()
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN We will investigate this vigorously to see how this could have been prevented, if at all.
FRANK PENELA It was recklessness and arrogance, and it could have been prevented.
ERIC KAPLAN It is the clear volume of these cases which is worrying, 1 million incidents a year, and even more c...
EDWARD LEIGH There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That's really the tragedy, the amputations that could have been prevented with early aggressive trea...
DR. LEROY STROM We've got to see if she'll actually pick up (the game) fast enough.
ANDY BEEN She's probably my biggest scoring threat right now.
ANDY BEEN Even though we're rebuilding, who knows what will pan out. They're enjoying it. I have 26, 27 girls ...
ANDY BEEN I hate to say to the seniors that we're rebuilding. But we are.
ANDY BEEN I am a satisfied man.
HARRY BEEN Our main goal this year is to advance to the regional final.
SHANE BEEN![]()
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
SAMUEL RICHARDSON We put the blame on a 14-year-old for the sins and omissions of the adults. This could have been pre...
GARY MITCHELL Every road accident in the world today would have been prevented ,if only we would have been 10secon...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If we had this inadequate of a response to an event we were warned about, how much worse would it ha...
SUSAN COLLINS![]()
If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS![]()
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing dem...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE It could have been worse if Bush had been embarrassed, or humiliated.
MICHAEL SHIFTER![]()
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patr...
JIM GERLACH 'School Daze' was one of the highlights of my life because it was the first chance I had to ...
BILL NUNN![]()
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if i...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Alexander Woollcott did say she (Parker) would be Mrs. Benchley if there wasn't one already. We play...
GINNY REDINGTON If it had just been some femme fatale, I think this whole thing could have been settled. You know, i...
COLIN QUINN![]()
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
BOBBY BOWDEN If helicopters had been used in emergency rescue operations, more than 10,000 people could have been...
LIU DAXIANG![]()
If the INS had stuck with its earlier position that it was a case about custody ... then everyone wo...
CONNIE MACK![]()
Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?"
Alexander: "T...
PAULLINA SIMONS If anyone had been downstairs, it could have been very serious because they actually pushed that wal...
BETTIE MARTINE [McComb] practiced medicine in a way that only Dr. Frankenstein would practice medicine. He was reck...
ERIC KAPLAN![]()
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
SUE TOWNSEND![]()
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, a...
DUFF GREEN![]()
If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.
BOB BECKEL If time takes orders from man, it would have been reviewed to yesterday to correct the things that a...
AIHEBHOLO-ORIA OKONOBOH![]()
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR![]()
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE![]()
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
NORMAN AUGUSTINE One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE![]()
If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
GEORGES BIDAULT Clearly, many of our problems could have been avoided if there had been greater commitment to eradic...
ANWAR IBRAHIM Nothing could have been prevented. But still you know that somehow something wasn't watching. Someth...
MADISON SMARTT BELL There have been terrorist operatives and they may even number 100 but there have been continuous ope...
MICHAEL DEFENSOR![]()
I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
SYLVIA PLATH I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
BUDD SCHULBERG![]()
I certainly would not want to see a situation evolve where some intervening event occurred which mig...
ARLEN SPECTER![]()
Had he lived, what a different world it could have been, his loyalists say. But it's also possible h...
LANCE MORROW We were pleasantly surprised. We are very pleased. My dad was very moved, even to tears. We just fee...
MARILYN SHOEMAKER Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
FRAN DRESCHER American citizens generally have been targeted for kidnapping and other terrorist actions.
DANIEL PEARL![]()
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had ...
MICKEY ROONEY It could have been where I had to do nothing and that would have been great.
BRENT MARTIN![]()
The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT It could have been a lot worse if they'd been delayed by the weather.
EARL BILISKE Connolly was a realist, Pearse the direct opposite, ... through hell had such action been necessary....
MICHAEL COLLINS If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have ...
LARS VON TRIER You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
BUDD SCHULBERG We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - govern...
DOROTHY DENNING![]()
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been foll...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Without question this battle has been time consuming and draining. How much better could the numbers...
ERIC UPIN Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against t...
ROGER WICKER![]()
You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would hav...
JENNIFER NIVEN![]()
You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have ...
JENNIFER NIVEN I wish it could have been avoided, which it could have, if she had... just said, 'Come on, y'all wal...
ANNETTE BAKER Our primary focus is on ensuring children are fully protected against vaccine-preventable diseases. ...
LORRAINE DUNCAN![]()
As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Had they not have shown up, it could have been tragic.
SCOTT HOFFMAN![]()
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER He could have been a much more wealthy person had he not been in public service.
CARROLL PADGETT That felt really good one of the best feelings I've ever had. If we could have gotten our offense...
JACOB JONES If he had continued, there was a good chance Mike could have been hurt. He knew he was done.
JEFF FENECH![]()
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to d...
ARISTOTLE![]()
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to d...
ARISTOTLE![]()
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a travele...
BAYARD TAYLOR![]()
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN In the first overtime, Hutchens had three critical saves. If he hadn't gotten them, the score could ...
KAI SUNG And if there were any such, they have never been condemned to slavery by any who are proper judges, ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS There were no police reports to indicate she had been followed or threatened or anything like that,
WARREN COUNTY![]()
In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.
JEFF LINDSAY You can see how our police worked from the fact that the bandits had a [floor] plan of the school, w...
ALEXANDER TORSHIN As a result, law enforcement officers did not know how to handle the situation. No training had been...
ALEXANDER TORSHIN The list of failures and shortcomings is long.
ALEXANDER TORSHIN The militants' camp was located just 70 meters off the road. We visited the site - we saw that. The ...
ALEXANDER TORSHIN I could have been Captain Beefheart or Tom Waits, if I'd been born in America.
ALBERT KUVEZIN![]()
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON![]()
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a...
VICTOR HUGO If the contaminated water had been supplied to households, the result would have been unimaginable.
ZHANG LIJUN![]()
Throughout the convention, and again on October 22nd, the police prevented people from joining demon...
JAMES LAFFERTY It's a very inhumane way to behave. If they stayed at the scene, first aid could have been given. Ma...
GARY SINGH![]()
I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that...
NAT WOLFF Instead of operating within rules and law, we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nation...
JACK BROOKS
DAILY EXPRESS That could have prevented the terrorist attack. But they weren't fulfilled.
ALEXANDER TORSHIN The attacks of September 11th could have been prevented if the right combination of skill, cooperati...
BOB GRAHAM These two incidents in the jail could have been prevented.
RICK DUNLAP
In the last week, we have learned that since the 7th of July two further terrorist plots have been p... TONY BLAIR
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou... ERNEST BEVIN
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou... ERNEST BEVIN We will investigate this vigorously to see how this could have been prevented, if at all.
FRANK PENELA It was recklessness and arrogance, and it could have been prevented.
ERIC KAPLAN It is the clear volume of these cases which is worrying, 1 million incidents a year, and even more c...
EDWARD LEIGH There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That's really the tragedy, the amputations that could have been prevented with early aggressive trea...
DR. LEROY STROM We've got to see if she'll actually pick up (the game) fast enough.
ANDY BEEN She's probably my biggest scoring threat right now.
ANDY BEEN Even though we're rebuilding, who knows what will pan out. They're enjoying it. I have 26, 27 girls ...
ANDY BEEN I hate to say to the seniors that we're rebuilding. But we are.
ANDY BEEN I am a satisfied man.
HARRY BEEN Our main goal this year is to advance to the regional final.
SHANE BEEN
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? SAMUEL RICHARDSON We put the blame on a 14-year-old for the sins and omissions of the adults. This could have been pre...
GARY MITCHELL Every road accident in the world today would have been prevented ,if only we would have been 10secon...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If we had this inadequate of a response to an event we were warned about, how much worse would it ha...
SUSAN COLLINS
If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one. EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing dem... CONDOLEEZZA RICE It could have been worse if Bush had been embarrassed, or humiliated.
MICHAEL SHIFTER
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patr...
JIM GERLACH 'School Daze' was one of the highlights of my life because it was the first chance I had to ...
BILL NUNN
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if i... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Alexander Woollcott did say she (Parker) would be Mrs. Benchley if there wasn't one already. We play...
GINNY REDINGTON If it had just been some femme fatale, I think this whole thing could have been settled. You know, i...
COLIN QUINN
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better. BOBBY BOWDEN If helicopters had been used in emergency rescue operations, more than 10,000 people could have been...
LIU DAXIANG
If the INS had stuck with its earlier position that it was a case about custody ... then everyone wo... CONNIE MACK
Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?"Alexander: "T...
PAULLINA SIMONS If anyone had been downstairs, it could have been very serious because they actually pushed that wal...
BETTIE MARTINE [McComb] practiced medicine in a way that only Dr. Frankenstein would practice medicine. He was reck...
ERIC KAPLAN
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice. SUE TOWNSEND
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, a...
DUFF GREEN
If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act. BOB BECKEL If time takes orders from man, it would have been reviewed to yesterday to correct the things that a...
AIHEBHOLO-ORIA OKONOBOH
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. NORMAN AUGUSTINE One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE
If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria. GEORGES BIDAULT Clearly, many of our problems could have been avoided if there had been greater commitment to eradic...
ANWAR IBRAHIM Nothing could have been prevented. But still you know that somehow something wasn't watching. Someth...
MADISON SMARTT BELL There have been terrorist operatives and they may even number 100 but there have been continuous ope...
MICHAEL DEFENSOR
I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself. SYLVIA PLATH I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
BUDD SCHULBERG
I certainly would not want to see a situation evolve where some intervening event occurred which mig... ARLEN SPECTER
Had he lived, what a different world it could have been, his loyalists say. But it's also possible h... LANCE MORROW We were pleasantly surprised. We are very pleased. My dad was very moved, even to tears. We just fee...
MARILYN SHOEMAKER Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
FRAN DRESCHER American citizens generally have been targeted for kidnapping and other terrorist actions.
DANIEL PEARL
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had ... MICKEY ROONEY It could have been where I had to do nothing and that would have been great.
BRENT MARTIN
The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been ... ELISABETH ELLIOT It could have been a lot worse if they'd been delayed by the weather.
EARL BILISKE Connolly was a realist, Pearse the direct opposite, ... through hell had such action been necessary....
MICHAEL COLLINS If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have ...
LARS VON TRIER You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
BUDD SCHULBERG We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - govern...
DOROTHY DENNING
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been foll... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Without question this battle has been time consuming and draining. How much better could the numbers...
ERIC UPIN Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against t...
ROGER WICKER
You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would hav... JENNIFER NIVEN
You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have ... JENNIFER NIVEN I wish it could have been avoided, which it could have, if she had... just said, 'Come on, y'all wal...
ANNETTE BAKER Our primary focus is on ensuring children are fully protected against vaccine-preventable diseases. ...
LORRAINE DUNCAN
As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Had they not have shown up, it could have been tragic.
SCOTT HOFFMAN
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an... RAYMOND CHANDLER He could have been a much more wealthy person had he not been in public service.
CARROLL PADGETT That felt really good one of the best feelings I've ever had. If we could have gotten our offense...
JACOB JONES If he had continued, there was a good chance Mike could have been hurt. He knew he was done.
JEFF FENECH
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to d... ARISTOTLE
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to d... ARISTOTLE
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a travele... BAYARD TAYLOR
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f... JANE AUSTEN In the first overtime, Hutchens had three critical saves. If he hadn't gotten them, the score could ...
KAI SUNG And if there were any such, they have never been condemned to slavery by any who are proper judges, ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS There were no police reports to indicate she had been followed or threatened or anything like that,
WARREN COUNTY
In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder. JEFF LINDSAY You can see how our police worked from the fact that the bandits had a [floor] plan of the school, w...
ALEXANDER TORSHIN As a result, law enforcement officers did not know how to handle the situation. No training had been...
ALEXANDER TORSHIN The list of failures and shortcomings is long.
ALEXANDER TORSHIN The militants' camp was located just 70 meters off the road. We visited the site - we saw that. The ...
ALEXANDER TORSHIN I could have been Captain Beefheart or Tom Waits, if I'd been born in America.
ALBERT KUVEZIN
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. LAURELL K. HAMILTON
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a... VICTOR HUGO If the contaminated water had been supplied to households, the result would have been unimaginable.
ZHANG LIJUN
Throughout the convention, and again on October 22nd, the police prevented people from joining demon... JAMES LAFFERTY It's a very inhumane way to behave. If they stayed at the scene, first aid could have been given. Ma...
GARY SINGH
I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that... NAT WOLFF Instead of operating within rules and law, we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nation...
JACK BROOKS
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style. 
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin... 
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. 
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
All generalizations are false, including this one. 
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t... 
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to... 
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood... 
The proper study of Mankind is Man. 
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. 
And die of nothing but a rage to live. 
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner... 
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ... 
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i... 
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ... 
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla... 
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di... 
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion 
To understand is to forgive, even oneself. 
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. 
Our envy of others devours us most of all 
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m... 
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it 
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed... 