Could Quotes
8509 quotes by 5734 authors
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime…
— Hannah Arendt
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I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So…
— Paul Auster
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current…
— Benigno Aquino III
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least…
— J. J. Abrams
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could…
— Neil Armstrong
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart.…
— Rodney Atkins
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful…
— Chinua Achebe
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but…
— David Attenborough
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds…
— David Attenborough
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'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
— Margaret Atwood
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to…
— Margaret Atwood
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
— Dean Acheson
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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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