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  • Barbara Kingsolver What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
    ― Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Clinton What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?
    Source: ABC Primetime Live interview during opening of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., November 2004
    ― Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    ― Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
    ― Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Anatole France What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
    ― Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jeremy Taylor What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
    ― Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Bill Veeck What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
    ― Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Immanuel Kant What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
    ― Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Ben Parr What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
    ― Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • George Orwell What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
    ― George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Irv Kupcinet What can you say about a society that says that god is dead and Elvis is alive?
    ― Irv Kupcinet
     
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  • Robert Burton What can't be cured must be endured.
    ― Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Brigitte Bardot What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
    ― Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
    ― Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • William E. Rothschild What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
    ― William E. Rothschild
    American author (1933 - )
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  • Ben Nelson What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
    ― Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
    ― Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • O. Henry What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
    ― O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Napoleon Hill What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
    ― Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Horace What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
    ― Horace
    Roman poet
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