Could Quotes

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.