All Quotes

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
‐‐ Adam McKay

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
‐‐ JR

Can clearly say Vegemite is horrible! Like tryin' new stuff though.
‐‐ Niall Horan

Can companies just claim a total lack of political responsibility in how their technology is used in all instances? It's something that companies should be thinking about when they sell their technologies around the world.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Can dancing change your life? Yes. It's changed mine. What I've learned is, it's not about how good you are technically. It's about your soul coming through. It's about having fun.
‐‐ Lisa Rinna

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal

Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.
‐‐ Kobe Bryant

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
‐‐ Clancy Brown

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.
‐‐ Viola Davis

Can I play a southern character? You betcha. Can I do the voice of Tourist Dad and Carnival Barker? Ya betcha. Can I do Fix-It Felix? Ya betcha. But I don't want to just play southern characters, so I hide it; I bury it. I tamp it down like a secret. Like a dirty little secret.
‐‐ Rob Huebel

Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's the nature of dementia.
‐‐ Judy Parfitt

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
‐‐ Gail Collins

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
‐‐ David Schwimmer

Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.
‐‐ Chris Adami

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
‐‐ Richard Bach

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
‐‐ Dorothy Thompson

Can one truly be passionate about something if they are not committed to it?
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
‐‐ Alice Walker

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
‐‐ Catharine MacKinnon

Can someone's true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel.
‐‐ Derek Hough

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
‐‐ Natan Sharansky

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
‐‐ Zadie Smith

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.
‐‐ Jennifer Grant

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.
‐‐ Gwen Ifill

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.
‐‐ Billy Gibbons

'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
‐‐ Sampha

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.
‐‐ Jonathan Raymond

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
‐‐ Terry McMillan

Can't really despise people you don't know.
‐‐ Richard D. James

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
‐‐ Ice Cube

'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.
‐‐ Becky G

'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
‐‐ Arturo Toscanini

Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?
‐‐ Charles Jencks

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?
‐‐ Francis Alys

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
‐‐ Louis Aragon

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can the president really blame Fox News for his problems?
‐‐ Don Lemon

Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith