All Quotes

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
‐‐ Joshua Reynolds

Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
‐‐ Zara Larsson

Could you imagine me and the roasters taking on the GOP field? It would be the greatest show ever. Prove that you can take a joke. Prove that you're a man or woman of the people. Prove that you're not above criticism even in the form of a backhanded compliment.
‐‐ Jeff Ross

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
‐‐ Basil Rathbone

Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
‐‐ Barbara Boxer

Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.
‐‐ Ginnifer Goodwin

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
‐‐ Bram Stoker

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.
‐‐ Claire Danes

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your .
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
‐‐ Ellen Key

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
‐‐ Nikolai Gogol

Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
‐‐ John Doar

Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
‐‐ Gabrielle Giffords

Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
‐‐ Theresa May

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
‐‐ Charlize Theron

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.
‐‐ David Cameron

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.
‐‐ James Woolsey

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
‐‐ Edna O'Brien

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.
‐‐ George Papandreou

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

Countries aren't built by boring people.
‐‐ Bassem Youssef

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
‐‐ Xavier Niel

Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
‐‐ Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.
‐‐ Laurent Lamothe

Countries such as Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria, which support terrorist organizations and use terror to achieve their objectives, are precisely the same countries working tirelessly to acquire weapons of mass destruction. This combination creates a new dimension to the threat on our way of life in the 21st century.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
‐‐ Robert Mugabe

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
‐‐ Samantha Power

Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra