Could Quotes

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.