Top 100 We Could Do Quotes
#1. We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
Garry Marshall
#2. I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity.
Jack Layton
#3. Of course, we could do simulations with random number generators and make statistical predictions about long-term outcomes. But suppose that what looks to us like a random event is really controlled by forces outside our perceptible sphere?
Jonathan Marks
#4. I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
Ali Larter
#5. We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess
across the night ...
Jack Kerouac
#6. I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.
Halle Berry
#7. I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.
Jodi Benson
#8. I nodded dejectedly. She was right. There wasn't a thing that we could do. But perhaps burn a few bunches of incense to Sekhmet. I would utter some frantic prayers to God too even though Christianity hadn't even been thought of yet. It wouldn't hurt to cover all of my bases.
Courtney Cole
#9. If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
African Spir
#10. We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.
Robyn Carr
#11. There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#12. Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world ... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.
Kirk Cameron
#13. We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
Jerome K. Jerome
#14. I guess that's what you get when your relationship starts by betraying someone - a never-ending well of doubt. If we could do it to someone, it could be done to us.
Anonymous
#15. If only we had the ability to live life as though it were so new or so close to the end that all we could do is give and show and become love. It seems that beginnings and endings teach us about this kind of love. It is in between that we tend to forget.
Michael Spehn
#16. We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly.
"What?" I ask.
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale.
I don't know how to respond. This idea is so preposterous.
Suzanne Collins
#17. If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. If Isabelle Reagan can take a guy like me and turn him into someone worthy of respect then it's mind blowing to think what she can do for the rest of the world. What we could do for it together. We might be able to change it.
Melyssa Winchester
#19. Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.
Richelle Mead
#20. We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.
Nnedi Okorafor
#21. There are things that happen in our life but we dont want them to happen. Irony is they happen in front of our eyes and all we could do is let them happen
Lovely Goyal
#22. Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
Franco Harris
#23. I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this.
Cheryl Tiegs
#24. And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
David Plouffe
#25. By the time we are convinced of the climate change impacts; there would be nothing we could do to help.
M.F. Moonzajer
#26. We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.
Sharon Olds
#27. There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.
Robbie Keane
#28. I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
James Van Allen
#29. We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.
Alexis Tsipras
#30. As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'
Jeffrey Skoll
#31. There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.
Annie Lennox
#32. I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.
Jonathan Meades
#33. You have to be prepared to think outside the box ... Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
Geoffrey Canada
#34. As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live.
Alfred Nestor
#35. Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about.
Joseph Kosinski
#36. From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
Martha Gellhorn
#37. My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
Robin Wright
#38. Maybe we could do that whole "my enemy's enemy" thing and skip off into the night, holding hands.
Cherie Priest
#39. Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
Erin McKean
#40. We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.
Nolan Bushnell
#41. You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.
Levon Helm
#42. Our real innermost concern was to get as much money and praise as possible. To gain that end we could do nothing except write books and papers.
Leo Tolstoy
#43. I do believe that Instagram has put a stake in the ground and we're growing more quickly than anyone. Is there something in there we could do to make it a multi-billion dollar business? I think we can figure out something along the way.
Kevin Systrom
#44. I'd done lots of impossible things before. No one had thought we could afford five school dances in one year, and hadn't I found the funds? ... We could do this.
Rachel Hawkins
#45. I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#46. There was nothing we could do; we were just a couple of powerless, poor kids, so desperate to find a way to be together.
Renee Carlino
#47. Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
Billy Bob Thornton
#48. I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#49. Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
William Julius Wilson
#51. In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
Vince McMahon
#52. Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it.
Saleema Nawaz
#53. The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
Jay Roach
#54. Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
Upton Sinclair
#55. When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.
Richard Branson
#56. Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.
Rob Bell
#57. Then why do you want to know?"
"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Umberto Eco
#58. This has been a long day. Rest is most likely the best thing we could do right now, even if it does get us nasty case of motel cooties and our skin rots off. ~Cleo
Sally Slayer
#59. The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.
George Orwell
#60. You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
Wayne Kramer
#61. Through the whole ordeal, I don't think we ever said to each other: "This isn't fair." We just kept going. We recognized that there were things we could do that might help the outcome in a positive ways ... and we did them. Without saying it in words, our attitude was, "Let's saddle up and ride.
Randy Pausch
#62. What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering.
Paul Farmer
#63. This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#64. What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
Bob Goff
#65. In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama
#67. We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.
Stan Lee
#68. I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak,
Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.
Q-Tip
#69. Honesty, while painful at times, was the best thing we could do for each other.
S.C. Stephens
#70. In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.
Mac Thornberry
#71. We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
Vince Cable
#72. We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
Paul Prudhomme
#73. Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.
Brit Hume
#74. It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.
Anthony Kiedis
#75. I think we could do with being a little more adventurous in certain areas and push on that little bit more, while a bit of luck also wouldn't go amiss.
Steven Gerrard
#76. We could do muscles first, then brains,: Aislin suggests.
"It's not all genetic, you know: he would have to work out."
"Make him right and I'll work him out," she says with a trace of her confident leer.
"Without a brain?"
She sighs. "They're better off without one.
Michael Grant
#79. Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.
Shaffi Mather
#80. The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.
Howard Dean
#81. I found myself in the changed man theory the other night thinking, "Yeah." I thought, "My god. If we could do this again," but there was nothing specific there. There's just the kind of vague sensation of how I'd like it to go. I allowed myself that gift to think that.
Pierce Brosnan
#82. If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.
Sebastian Thrun
#83. Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.
Jane Goodall
#84. We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.
David Cronenberg
#85. One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.
Dick Cheney
#86. Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that.
Kristin Davis
#87. To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.
John Nelson Darby
#88. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
Jack Kerouac
#89. It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly ... this was the way to go in the human species.
Robert Edwards
#90. Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
Michael Pollan
#91. [W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.
Countee Cullen
#92. We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
Suzanne Collins
#93. Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want them to be in our lives ...
Heshan Udunuwara
#94. If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.
John Hoeven
#95. When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.
Sheryl Sandberg
#96. I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
Octavia Spencer
#97. Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
Adam Pally
#98. I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.
Philip Davies
#99. We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.
Courtney E. Martin
#100. I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Paul Dudley White
