We couldn't budge them.

We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.

We couldn't be seen together, for the tongue of Scandal was ever ready to link our names, and the tongue of Scandal finds but one thing to say of the association of a man with a girl, no matter how innocent.

We couldn't help laughing.

" We figured we could win if our offense didn't put us into too many holes ", said 35-year old Colts lineman Billy Ray Smith, who was playing in his last NFL game, " Let me put it this way, they didn't put us into any holes we couldn't get out of "

We couldn't imagine a happy ending.

She said years later, " We couldn't even take care of ourselves.

We couldn't get insurance for Spence.

We couldn't think up things as funny as the real things that had happened.

We couldn't affect anything, but I still tried.

Ginn once stated that after Rollins joined, " We couldn't do songs with a sense of humor anymore ; he got into the serious way-out poet thing.

When the messenger turned back to look at the spot where Oedipus last stood, he says that " We couldn't see the man-he was gone-nowhere!

Despite having finished the script in 1985, Joel explained, " We couldn't make Hudsucker back then because we weren't that popular yet.

The book Conversations with Woody Allen reports that director Woody Allen wanted to cast Downey and Winona Ryder in his film Melinda and Melinda in 2005, but was unable to do so because he could not get insurance on them, stating, " We couldn't get bonded.

In 1964, Martin and Lyon began to control less of the organization, saying, " We felt that if the organization had any validity at all it couldn't be based on two people, it had to be able to stand and grow on its own.

Their composition, " When the Kissing Stops " made it to the final eight, but although initially tempted, the group decided not to perform the number themselves (" We all agreed it would be better to be remembered as winners, and we couldn't bear to lose!

We went through the stage door alley ( for the Curran Theatre ), and I couldn't get the stage door open.

Wilson realized that by scheduling the Golden Raspberry Awards prior to the Academy Awards, the ceremony would get more press coverage: " We finally figured out you couldn't compete with the Oscars on Oscar night, but if you went the night before, when the press from all over the world are here and they are looking for something to do, it could well catch on ," he said to BBC News.

" We couldn't infect the pigeons ," Swayne said.

We have a wonderful companionship that Hubert and I didn't have, couldn't have.

We recorded it live, and they all got enormous laughs, which just went on and on, but we couldn't use the jokes.

Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke said, " We had originally approved a rule where the goaltenders couldn't handle the puck behind the net at all.

We couldn't eat when we wanted to.

We couldn't do it, but God did.

`` We know Penny spent some -- and Carmer must have dropped a few dollars getting that load on ''.

`` We have now a national character to establish '', Washington wrote in 1783.

We have ample light when the sun sets ; ;

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

We are forced, in our behavior towards others, to adopt empirically successful patterns in toto because we have such a minimal understanding of their essential elements.

We showed them to each other and said `` Would you have guessed ''??

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

We hear equally fervent concern over the belief that we have not enough generalists who can see the over-all picture and combine our national skills and knowledge for useful purposes.

We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.

We must believe we have the ability to affect our own destinies: otherwise why try anything??

We have recourse to the scientifically-trained specialist in the laboratory.

We must not forget, to be sure, that free discussion and debate have produced beneficial results.

We have so completely entered the child's fantasy that his illness and his death are the plausible and the necessary conclusion.

We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.

We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.

`` We have nothing to hide under a bushel.

We already have the only one of its kind ''.

We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.

We must, therefore, have a look at the new archaeological material and re-examine the literary and place-name evidence which bears upon the problem.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

`` We have a tremendous amount of talent -- but we lack cohesion ''.

We in East Greenwich have the example of two neighboring communities, one currently utilizing double sessions in their schools, and the other facing this prospect next year.

We have far less to fear in the migrant family than we have in the migrant developer under these conditions.