Could Quotes

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.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Put me up against Sarah Silverman and I could take her.

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.