Could Quotes
8509 quotes by 5693 authors
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Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.
— Jonathan Banks
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I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had…
— Frances Mayes
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The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets…
— James Fenton
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Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend…
— Simon Hoggart
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Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional Democrats from across…
— Dick Gephardt
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If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age…
— Joe Klein
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When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the…
— Joe Klein
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The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could…
— John Raese
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It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what…
— Philip Hammond
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Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected…
— Andrew Lansley
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Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a…
— Jeff Lindsay
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I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I…
— John Banville
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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see…
— John Boyne
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When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could…
— Jonathan Ames
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A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us…
— Joshua Harris
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