Top 100 We Could Quotes
#1. Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?
Evelyn Lau
#2. Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.
Ann Landers
#3. If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#4. Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#5. If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
Ben Carson
#6. ... and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.
Charlotte Eriksson
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
Boyd K. Packer
#10. That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don't know how a person could ever describe that scent.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.
Moshe Dayan
#12. For the God with whom they had to do is the same God with whom we have to do. We could sharpen the point by saying exactly the same God; for God does not change in the least particular.
J.I. Packer
#13. You know something Andie? If we could find some coal for you to sit on, we could both retire early.
Priscilla Glenn
#14. We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.
Dolly Parton
#15. Richard looks into my eyes and once again I know us for the children that we were, who had to make our own destiny in a world we could not understand.
Philippa Gregory
#16. 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
#17. If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.
James Joyce
#18. We'd been fucking each other for months without touching. And the last few days had this thing between us strung so tightly it was amazing we could move.
He was going to wreck me. Break me.
And I'd never needed anything more.
Molly O'Keefe
#19. Sometimes we're caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone - a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we'll doubt ourselves, but we can't let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance.
Jake Byrne
#20. 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
#21. He felt there had to be 'something'. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was only by the application of vision, only by making things, that we could transform the negative 'nothing'.
Ben Okri
#22. We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.
Kevin Ayers
#23. -During Thanatos's class-
Damien tapped quickly on his iPad and lifted it so we could all see: Torn Asunder=Torn To Pieces
P.C. Cast
#24. Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.
Nathalia Crane
#25. Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.
Deepak Chopra
#26. It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
Martin Bashir
#27. I figured we could get by on what we got. Not enough to make us happy, but enough to keep going.
Neil Gaiman
#28. The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.
Lee Gutkind
#29. I think that if we look at what created us, the divine intelligence that created every one of us all He can see is that beauty and love and care so if we could just show people how spectacular they are and how much potential they have.
John Assaraf
#30. 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
#31. All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
Mark Spitz
#32. 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
#33. Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened.
Junot Diaz
#34. Each of us had all the troubles we could carry. They rained down on us from the sky, and we raced around in a frenzy to pick them up and stuff them in our pockets. Why we did that stumps me, even now. Maybe we thought they were something else.
Haruki Murakami
#35. We stayed like that, him watching me crying, for as long as we could stand it. Then he took a couple of paces away. The room needed a window for him to go to and look out of. I could feel the grammar of the moment demanding it.
Glen Duncan
#36. I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
Connie Stevens
#37. We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.
Salman Khurshid
#38. The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect
but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.
Isaac Asimov
#39. Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.
Courtney Love
#40. We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
Boris Johnson
#41. My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.
K. Eric Drexler
#42. I was rather hoping we could live happily in sin for a very long time.
Gail Carriger
#43. Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information." I would add to that, "All the same, Sir, I'm not persuaded that we did the best we could with the information we had. Toward the end there, anyway, we had tons of information.
Kurt Vonnegut
#44. 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
#45. We only deliberately waste time with those we love
it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.
Sheila Cassidy
#46. We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.
Jack McDevitt
#47. He shrugs. We were young back then and swept up in the excitement that we could throw out the old ways and rebuild the world. I'm older now and understand. Our plans weren't thorough enough back then. This time they are.
Richard Kadrey
#48. Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather than through the economies of Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.
T. Boone Pickens
#49. If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
Barbara Bush
#50. 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
#51. Maybe we needed to break a little, so we could put ourselves back together more beautifully than before.
Leah Raeder
#52. Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
Gabe Newell
#53. That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.
Van Jones
#54. We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.
Justin Rosenstein
#55. The touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.
Hannah Arendt
#56. We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Mark Twain
#57. I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened.
Piper Faust
#58. Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!
William McDonough
#59. Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
William Peter Blatty
#60. In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#61. Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures,
and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.
Dalai Lama
#62. I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel.
Judy Blume
#63. With what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.
Jerry Pournelle
#64. We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.
Don Paterson
#65. 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
#66. If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#67. By inviting God into our difficulties we ground life - even its sad moments - in joy and hope. When we stop grasping our lives we can finally be given more than we could ever grab for ourselves. And we learn the way to a deeper love for others.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#68. I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
Olly Murs
#69. Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.
Nick Joaquin
#70. We physicists know that the brain is a milliwatt transmitter of radio. We have computers that can decipher much of this gibberish coming from our brain and we could then use that to control computers.
Michio Kaku
#71. Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn't let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.
Stephen Colletti
#72. But I remember the way Jin Ling made her wishes. How she said I wish we could be together forever with the bite of a tigress. Nothing would be impossible enough to keep her wishes from being fulfilled. Not even the walled City.
Ryan Graudin
#74. She gave him a whimsical smile. "It was long ago, Your Grace. And I do not hold a grudge. Although I must admit that sometimes, I miss having someone to sleep with."
Reaching out, Sterling trailed his gloved finger along her bare arm. "We could remedy that. Tonight if you like.
Lorraine Heath
#75. I thought ... that we could at least talk about books.
Cassandra Clare
#76. She's different and we could be something different together. Something astounding. Something you encounter once in a lifetime, if that.
J. Saman
#77. I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
C.J. Anderson
#78. If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#79. In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
Griffin Dunne
#80. I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
Eve Arnold
#81. 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
#82. We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.
Dannii Minogue
#83. God was thinking of you even before he made the world. In fact, that's why he created it! God designed this planet's environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of his love and the most valuable of all his creation.
Rick Warren
#84. We could build a boat, you and I, and sail to the moon and back.
Mette Jakobsen
#85. Everything we could possibly want or need is there for the taking, but we are blinded by fears of lack and limitation, and we have bought the lie that resources are limited, so we must therefore compete for the few that are left.
Stephen Richards
#86. But songbirds are trash," the chicken said, and the guinea hen laughed, saying, "Well, then, I guess we could all use a little more trash in our lives.
David Sedaris
#87. To a greater or lesser extent, everybody's always being ordered and threatened and pushed around. There may not be anything better we could hope for.
Haruki Murakami
#88. There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph De Maistre
#89. When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were
He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#90. I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it in dough and she'll make some nice-face cookies. Some girls wake up, man, you could put their face in dough and you'll get a gorilla cookie, for real!
Flavor Flav
#91. 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
#93. Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#94. Will you stay? I think I'd sleep better if you stayed here tonight. Then we could miss them together.
Veronica Rossi
#95. My father is definitely not the kind of guy who'd place his children in key roles within his organization if he didn't think we could surpass the expectations he had for us.
Ivanka Trump
#96. We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.
Charlaine Harris
#97. Really, I want you to finish this book feeling like we could become friends, if the timing was right. That's it. Oh, and by the way, you should drink while you're reading this book. If you want to play a drinking game, I suggest you take a shot when you feel like I am abusing commas.
Alida Nugent
#98. What beauty would we see around us, if for just one second we could acknowledge the beauty that lies within ourselves?
Monica Dumont
#99. We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.
Brian Harvey
#100. And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs
