Could Quotes

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

Love alone could waken love.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.