Couldn Quotes
410 quotes by 275 authors
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I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.
— William Maxwell
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In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the…
— David Stockman
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It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.
— Lisa Gardner
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To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always…
— Eva Zeisel
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There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and…
— Pam Houston
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When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge…
— Yvon Chouinard
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So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered.…
— Ransom Riggs
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You couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate almost everything.
— Ned Beauman
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One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colours of the…
— Jean-Louis Gassee
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The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle…
— Paul Hawken
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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.
— Saskia de Brauw
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People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember.…
— Chris Kyle
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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect…
— Chris Kyle
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Houllier couldn’t deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions
— Robbie Fowler
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Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of…
— Unknown Author
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I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and…
— Heidi Julavits
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I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.
— Robert Toth
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Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no.…
— Joel Hodgson
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You know those moments when everything is exactly the way it was meant to be? When you find yourself and your entire universe aligning in…
— Alice Clayton
Who Wrote These Couldn Quotes
275 authors contributed a total of 410 Couldn Quotes, led by these top contributors: