We Can Quotes

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.

It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

When you're hot, anything can happen.

Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I can't help but wonder, 'Where did the creator of The Jetsons go, and why hasn't he done something about this?'

When you have a baby, sleep is not an option. You can't sleep. Even on vacation, you wake up at 6:30 a.m.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

I suppose I like to give people something to talk and think about. I can just be the person that kind of put a message in the bottle to see where it ends up.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected. I usually try to start my day with a run before I even turn on my computer and clog my head with things to be done.

Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

I can't like watching Project Runway with Heidi Klum. There's just something wrong about a German woman saying who goes and who stays

With this face, I need all the deals I can get.

I have to tell you that it's not going to be easy. Take every chance and every opportunity that you can. Don't say 'I can't' or 'I shouldn't' or 'I'm too tired.'

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

I can bear a lot but not that pall

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.