"I could always say I worked at Microsoft, but could never say I worked for Microsoft, " Pauli says.
If things were really that bad, I figured, I could always fly home early.
And, I reasoned, with the job market the way it was I could always find something to fall back on if my startup leap of faith turned out to be a disaster.
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Thompson writes, I was getting a little too old to make powerful enemies when I had no cards at all, and I had lost some of my old zeal that had led me, in the past, to do what I damn well felt like doing, with the certain knowledge that I could always flee the consequences.
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If I was that exploring teenager, of course, and the whole world had flipped the Facebook switch, I could always just make a fake Facebook account, for sure.
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"I never minded if the opposition scored, because I always thought we could score another, " Guttmann once said.
Now as always, I could be making a donkey out of myself but I see it this way.
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"To me, this is a place I always felt like I could win, " said Perry who sank a 22-foot putt to break the deadlock having endured a frustrating time on the greens.
Now, if you promise not to tell anybody, I will let you in on a little secret: I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school.
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I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.
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It's always nice when I could pit a bit later than people and cover people off.
My family always said that I could tell what type of airplane it was by the sound.
"But I've always felt you could only do this as a United Kingdom and there have always been very strong arguments made in Scotland, " he said.
There is always a chance I could lose everything.
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"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know, " he wrote in a letter to Apple's board and the Apple community at large.
Ms. STANDEN: You know, to tell the truth, I could - I'm always growing(ph) on the edge.
In that case, as I explained in my last post, I think the panel has always worked better when it was three judges than four, and I could see Jackson, Minaj, and Urban working out long term.
"I always thought the majority of the players here could handle it, " McIlroy said.
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"I always watch those guys and I think I could be a professional footballer, " he told Sportsweek.
No matter what these women said about their husbands, there was always a silver lining that only I could see.
One of the other principles I learned was that lacking receipts you could always try to have a good story.
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And one of the things that I've always said about governors that Washington could learn from is that it's hard to be overly ideological as a governor, because the fact of the matter is, the rubber hits the road with you.
"I've always handled historical stuff that gets passed around, but I've often wished that I could get it back to the original family, " she says.
After a while, I could have him torpedoed, as was always happening to corvettes.
Killer Crossover When I first started going to SXSW, you could always sense a big change midweek when SXSW Interactive would give way to SXSW Music: The digital geeks with their glasses and BlackBerries would make way for the music geeks with their glasses and cigarettes.
Nevertheless there was always someone that saw more in me then I could or was willing to believe.
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
"It was nice to have the option, but it was always my intention to stay in football if I could, " he told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
Even before we left the surgery, I could feel her edging away, the way she always did whenever there was a problem.
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