Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it."

• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• AT Fields can only be penetrated spiritually Fallacy
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• There can be only one
• The Big Bang as the origin of matter
• I can only pray that, when I finally leave, I will have done little enough damage to be totally forgotten
• Reality can only be predicted on a statistical basis
• only cold little handheld mirrors in the wee hours of the morning can be trusted
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• How can something so incredibly beautiful be so incredibly wrong?
• Taking a wrong turn in Connecticut can be worse than you think
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• there are some things that can only be said at the top of a ferris wheel
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• only the named can be destroyed
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• If I can just get Mike to the 24-hour Whipper-Snapper, I will be okay.
• Bare feet can be as sexy as bare breasts
• It has been claimed that some or all of this article or section is incoherent and not understandable, and should possibly be reworded if the intended meaning can be determined
• It can be cold in the dark
• every partial order can be extended to a total order
• you can't you can never be sure. you die without knowing.
• Even simple things that you think are harmless can be dangerous. Like crayons. Like velvet.
• You can still be very hurtful when you do what's right.
• Any poet can be a computer. Any computer can be a poet.
• Children can be cruel
• Short can be good! (document)
• Dogs can be used for detecting mold in houses
• You can not be in love with every beautiful thing you see
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• My entire genetic makeup can be entered on a single CD-Rom
• Be all that you can be
• How complex can a public toilet be?
• How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
• Can it still be a good luck charm if it's something you stole?
• Valour can be brown
• What can be better than that?
• How can something be more beautiful than it is?
• Having knowledge is not the same as having understanding. You can have all the pieces in front of you and still not be able to put the puzzle together.
• Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
• Anything worth fixing can be fixed.
• sometimes things that look scary can be so beautiful, if you give them a chance
• What a kiss can be
• The video cuts out here; nothing more can be determined from the tape.
• Take a melody, simple as can be
• A dying playground can be Eden
• The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All
• How can a thinking, rational adult be a pandeist?
• Why the obliteration of privacy can be a good thing
• Can a straight guy be a gay flirt?
• Can the Cross be Saved?
• How precious can human life be? There are six billion people on the planet!
• murder can be fun
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging.
• Can my nodes be used against me in a court of law?
• Why procrastination can be productive
• homosexuals can be Roman Catholic priests
• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• The largest number that can be described in 14 words or less
• How to tell whether a figure can be drawn in one stroke
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging. Sort of like some men I know
• loyalty can be found in surprising places
• Father, can I be the dawn now?
• How can a thinking, rational adult be a monotheist?
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• TV can be a good thing
• Can a woman be sexist? Can a black person be racist?
• Everything Can Be Beaten
• How can vitality be achieved in figure painting?
• How can you defend people you know to be guilty?
• Now It Can Be Told: Devo At The Palace 12/9/88
• Knowledge can never be certain
• an excess of anything can be a poison
• Bragging about a high IQ is way worse than bragging about having a large dick. The latter can at least be demonstrably used for something and be put to good use.
• too much anthropomorphizing can be dangerous
• Trite As Can Be (user)
• The X that can be Y is not the true X
• she can scream so loud you'll be looking for your ears on the floor
• If Huey Lewis Isn't Still Cool Then How Can I Be?
• How can a thinking, rational adult be religious?
• With the Right Access, Anyone Can Be a Doctor
• Good products can be produced.
• The votes can be divided into roughly two categories. Those that got it, and those that didn't.
• nothing true can be said in a single sentence, and anything said in three is a lie
• A problem that takes the age of the universe to calculate and can be done on your home computer
• Any song can be a love song
• we can all just be around other people
• how can words exist and not be acceptable?
• It is something very shameful. Please contact me again if I can be of further service.
• Cars Can Be Blue
• ordering a pizza can be a painful experience
• How can a thinking, rational adult be an atheist?
• Be nice to smokers: any cigarette can be their last
• Can we still be friends?
• University students can be really stupid
• The way that can be spoken of is not the true way
• Sometimes, all you can be is a friend
• Why noding about your personal life can be a bad idea
• It can be days before the vision passes and I see the world plainly again.
• Exes can be good things
• You can suck dick and still be a virgin, Mary
• for now this is the best that can be done
• Words that can be written on a calculator
• Be the baddest bad girl you can be
• I find evolution to be a woefully inadequate theory until it can explain the following:
• Three-year-old boys can be cool
• This poem can be put off no longer
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• Can the Koran from Eternity be?
• happy as a clam or a lark or as happy as Pacino can be
• Foods which can be eaten raw
• Any odd number can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares
• Every "why" question can be answered by a phrase using the word "idiot"
• Can many fictions be woven into fact?
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• Any function can be represented as the sum of an even function and an odd one
• Now he can be loved. Now he is no more.
• Beggars CAN be choosers
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• No one can be unhappy with a fresh box of crayons
• Everything that can be invented has been invented
• Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity
• Any exercise can be made harder by going slower
• You can never be too rich or too thin
• Can anorexia be a lifestyle?
• can i be buried here among the dead?
• Forming a bond with someone or something can be liberating in some ways. It can be limiting in other ways, until you unbind.
• We Can Be Together
• We can be heroes
• Turtles can be slow.
• In such bounty there can be no shortage
• Expensive foods can be worth it
• Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
• The proper temperature can be reached through the use of heaters
• I have to wonder how this can be a metaphor for my life
• Proof that any filter can be extended to an ultrafilter
• How interracial coupling can be eugenic
• Anything you say can and will be used against you. (e2poll)
• No one can be in two places at once
• No one can be totally logical
• if a cycle can be broken, then it will have been worth it
• it can be easy to confuse pain and weakness
• if you think you are the strongest you can be, then you are
• How can idealism be a bad thing?
• Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• I don't see Heinlein writing books proposing that only farmers should be allowed to vote
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• This world might be saved, if only for the children
• Wanting only to be the honeysuckle to her butterfly
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens.
• it would be hilarious if only
• The zombie revolution will not be televised. But it will be tweeted.
• Men are designed to be good hunters, but it's women who are born killers
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• Although you are right, you were wrong to be confident

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