Can Do Quotes

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

I just don't think it's healthy to only have one pursuit, even if it's a seemingly positive thing. You can do a positive thing to the nth degree, and it turns on you at some point. You become stuck.

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is no need for any person in this Church to have an empty hand or an empty heart.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

What people can dream, people can do.

What Texans can dream, Texans can do.

What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The only thing you can do is just live your life.

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

I have so much respect for people that can do it [tredmill running], I wish I could because it looks really cool and really fun.

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

[Eva Braun] always said, "you're the Führer, you can do whatever you want to do."

I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.

Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.