Could Quotes

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.

I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them - I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.

My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.