Top 100 We Could Have Quotes
#1. I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself.
Ben Quayle
#2. More polar bears live in Canada than in the rest of the world combined, which raises the question, Why the hell did we choose the beaver as our national emblem? We could have had Nanuk of the North, Lord of the Arctic, as our symbol. Instead we got stuck with Squirrelly McTeeth. Sheesh.
Will Ferguson
#3. I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.
Craig Venter
#4. I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?
Jonathan Ive
#5. It was a crazy game. We could have scored five ... oh right, we did score five, but we could have scored six, seven or eight.
Robin Van Persie
#6. We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.
J.K. Rowling
#7. Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.
John Ridley
#8. What happened there was they were moving the chains and we had the call made. We were really trying to get two plays if we could have rather than use the timeout thereafter.
Les Miles
#9. Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper.
Stephanie Klein
#10. We will have to create an avant-garde ... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.
Jacques Delors
#11. I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.
Bernie Sanders
#12. Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
Sam Kean
#13. I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.
Ella Henderson
#14. WHEN WE GIVE FROM A PLACE OF LOVE, RATHER THAN FROM A PLACE OF EXPECTATION, MORE USUALLY COMES BACK TO US THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.
Susan Jeffers
#15. Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.
Trent Reznor
#16. What a beautiful mess we could have made of each other.
Pierce Brown
#17. Too bad you're like my older sister. We could have been something special."
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Older? You're seventy-six!"
"Boo, you whore," he said.
T.J. Klune
#18. Republicans: 'we fought the good fight' - yeah, it woulda been worth it if we could have prevented just one poor kid from getting a free inhaler.
Bill Maher
#19. You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily
Candace Allan
#20. I don't need a big house to raise a family, I only need you."
Alex smiled, kissing her on the forehead. "Well, why didn't you tell me that to start with? We could have saved a lot of money," he teased.
Loni Flowers
#21. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; were always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have.
Paulo Coelho
#22. The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.
J.K. Rowling
#23. We could have a sleepover, with a naked pillow fight and everything." "Those are my favorite!
Helena Hunting
#24. Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as - with just a little more effort - we could have.
Jeff Hobbs
#25. We treat what's lost, what could have never been, what we could have never dreamed of, again. We treat it like heirlooms for it is so precious. For we know it can be lost, again.
Kevin Focke
#26. I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.
Franklin Raines
#27. We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.
John Bonham
#28. I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.
Amanda Hocking
#30. We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
Ally Condie
#31. Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this:
WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT,
BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP.
only he didn't say doggone.
Kurt Vonnegut
#32. Almighty God, if it aint too far out of the way of things in your eternal plan do you reckon we could have a little rain down here.
Cormac McCarthy
#33. If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.
Blake Shelton
#34. I told you it's pointless talking about ifs and if nots. But...I do think it's nice if there could come a time where we could have fun talking about if and if nots, no matter how pointless it is...You know, I feel really happy right now. I'm so glad I was able to meet you in this life. Thank you.
Inio Asano
#35. How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
Rene Cassin
#36. If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
Georges Bidault
#37. If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.
Alan Alda
#38. We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose, and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.
Devon Still
#39. We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?
Samuel Beckett
#40. How different our life could have been and how different we could have been as a person if one little decision was altered.
M.B. Julien
#41. Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but ... Ancaladar ate the horse.
Mercedes Lackey
#42. By Me, of course, and I hope you enjoy.
There is a road we choose to take
There are several before us
The one we choose becomes our fate
The others we could have meandered
Bonnie Jennings
#43. I love you," he said simply. "I should have told you a long time ago. Maybe we could have avoided so many stupid mistakes if I had. Then again," he added, beginning to smile, "sometimes I think it was all those obstacles that made me love you so deeply.
Kiera Cass
#44. Ought we not to love dearly the neighbor, who truly represents to us the sacred Person of our Master? And is this not one of the most powerful motives we could have for loving each other with an ardently burning love?
Francis De Sales
#47. How many men are stupid enough to dump two Emerson girls?" Dad asked. "Too bad we're not mobbed up. We could have his body dumped in the Farmington River.
Kristan Higgins
#48. I wish that when we weren't filming, we could have full privacy. I wish I could live in a bubble and just be with my family.
Kourtney Kardashian
#49. Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#50. There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said
no. But somehow we missed it.
Tom Stoppard
#51. The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
Kim Hunter
#52. Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.
Cass Sunstein
#54. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
#55. Love, and trust. The things that make us human. They could have been mine, if only I could have leapt. If only we could have leapt.
Amie Kaufman
#56. I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
Jerry Harrison
#57. It's part of us," she said jerkily. "How could I not want part of us? It's your baby.I'm carrying your baby and I love it so much already it terrifies me."
"Oh,Diana." He touched her then, gently, his hands on her face. "You've let two weeks go by when we could have been terrified together.
Nora Roberts
#58. All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
Thomas Sowell
#59. I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So it's crazy.
Missy Elliot
#60. We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
Adam Jones
#61. If we could have just done something so dreadful and Father said That's sad too people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today and I said, You can shirk all things and he said, Ah can you.
William Faulkner
#62. Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
Larry Holmes
#63. Oh, the time we spent alone
The hours wishing we could have it back again
Lie in bed awake wishing for each other
Alysha Speer
#64. I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we've finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here."
"I'm not interested in a 'racket.' I'm an academic."
"That's okay, Unc. I won't hold it against you.
Libba Bray
#65. God, i love you, so, so much. It's beyond words for me too, honey. I'm so pissed at myself for not having the balls to tell you before. To think we could have had this ... the whole time.
Kahlen Aymes
#66. I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome
Walt Frazier
#67. Are you sure about this? The lion wondered. We could have six females to serve us. Less work.
Tru stifled a laugh. That's what you think.
Ellen Connor
#68. We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.
Richard Zimler
#69. If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.
Bill McKibben
#70. If I'd known things would end this way, we could have gone and done all that stuff instead of making excuses about my job, about how your mother couldn't spare the time,
Banana Yoshimoto
#71. We could have simply passed like ships in the night, with serendipity eluding us.
Matt Abrams
#72. You can be more effective together than apart. In a truly healthy relationship, we enable each other to accomplish more than we could have done alone. This was His plan.
Francis Chan
#74. He was shaking so badly, we could have used him to make martinis for James Bond.
Elizabeth George
#75. Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
Wernher Von Braun
#76. If women could only have more," I said longingly. "If we could have more in our own right. Being a woman at court is like forever watching a pastrycook at work in the kitchen. All those good things, and you can have nothing.
Philippa Gregory
#77. Little one," Simon said after a prolonged silence, "why isn't it enough that I care for you and Elizabeth as
I've never cared for anyone else? Are you truly going to toss what we could have away for a world of
strangers that will never even appreciate your actions?
Trisha Baker
#78. Love does not have gender. Love is not exclusive! Our hearts have the capacity to love so many people. The only tragedy is when fear, cultural barriers, ridiculous misunderstandings, or arbitrary numbers prevent us from experiencing the joy we could have.
Nadia Scrieva
#79. The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don't love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins. In spite of our failures, weaknesses, and selfishness, He sacrificed His own life so we could have eternal life.
Dana Arcuri
#80. The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.
Michael Scheuer
#81. If we claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp. Pretty surely it will be more than we could have had, if we were unconscious of our liability to err.
William James
#82. Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.
Nick Joaquin
#83. God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets.
Michael S. Horton
#84. If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. When we go adventuring with Jesus, He takes us places we never dreamed we could go, gives us ideas we never thought we could have, and gives us friends that last forever.
Mark Batterson
#86. Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They're the only good parts of Canada.
Ann Coulter
#87. Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population
Nicki Minaj
#88. You know, I think there should be a Zach Braff Day. We could have it on December 25th and then people can decide whether they want to celebrate me or Jesus. If you ask me, the choice is pretty obvious.
Zach Braff
#89. If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
Ben Hogan
#90. If we had some eggs we could have eggs and ham, if we had some ham.
Groucho Marx
#92. Sometimes I can almost see around our heads,
like gnats around a streetlight in summer,
The children we could have,
The glimmer of them.
Sharon Olds
#93. You could have gotten a car with GPS," Total said helpfully.
Yes," I said "Or we could have brought along a dog that doesn't talk." I gave Angel a pointed look, and she smiled, well, angelically, at me.
Total huffed, offended at me and climbed into her lap ...
James Patterson
#94. I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ... We could have coffee for three hours and never get through all the horrors I've seen. Where was the help when we needed it?
Hannibal
#95. If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.
D. Elton Trueblood
#96. If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
Herbert Hoover
#97. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
Charles Francis Richter
#98. If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.
Nancy Mairs
#99. When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?
Zach Braff
#100. We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
Christine Caine
