We Can Quotes

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

Time and time again I can't please myself.

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don't have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they're going to watch it.

Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.

I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

We can not be naive and think we can go it alone.

I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.

I can catch the ball. You've got to throw it to me.

I'm addicted to tattoos. I can't stop; I love them.

I do everything I can on a daily basis just so I can have something to give back to the world.

As for super-stardom, I can say that I'm ready for anything. I feel like I've mastered so many stages in my life and the cool thing is, I don't see that energy changing anything.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.