Quotes with could

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  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Harry S. Truman I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bubba Smith I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Alec Guinness I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Orson Welles I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Marianne Williamson I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Burton Rascoe I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
    Contemporary Reminiscences in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927)
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  • Angela Merkel I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Assata Shakur I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Aaron Eckhart I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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