Could Quotes

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

God created man, but I could do better.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.