Could Quotes

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.