"I could no sooner solve a murder than they can solve a tech case.
I'm a neurobiologist, but I don't know much more about quantum physics than the average musician, and I could no sooner read a physics paper in a science journal than I could read the score of a Brahms symphony.
As Zonday says: "You could sooner herd cats than plan for the public to like or dislike something".
"I think I could have intervened sooner," he said.
"If I had an urgent message, I could get it sooner because I could catch it at work instead of waiting until I got home," she said.
"They told me it was going to be six weeks, but I have an athlete's mentality that I thought I could come back sooner," Gulbis said.
When asked in 2009 by America, a national Catholic magazine, whether he had any regrets, Berrigan replied: "I could have done sooner the things I did, like Catonsville".
Sunderland's brother, Zac, sailed around the world alone last year, at 17. 26 January "I wish I could have written sooner, but as most of you know, the first few days out are pretty hard".
That leads to complacency, as neatly summed up by the driver in the second incident above, "Yes, I could have reacted sooner, but when the car slows down correctly 1,000 times, you trust it to do it the next time to.
The sooner I could make my child's lunch, the sooner I could address a few pressing matters on my to-do list.
