You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
Pope John Paul II

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
Pope John Paul II

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O'Rourke

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
Clint Eastwood

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
John Keats

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
Lord Byron

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron