If I Could Quotes

• If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had

  LeBron James

  Nba Championships, Done, Ifs

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• You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?

  Miley Cyrus

  Dolphins, Pool

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• If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

  John Steinbeck

  Jobs, Men, Trouble

  John Steinbeck (1950). “Of Mice and Men”, p.12, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.

  Simone Elkeles

  Feelings, Turns, Ifs

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• If I could know me, I could know the universe.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Self Knowledge, Know Me, Knows

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• I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

  Marian Keyes

  Morning, Worry, Brain

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• If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Acceptance, Enlightenment, Quiet

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

  John Green

  Mom, Guy, Secret

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.77, Penguin

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• It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Ambition, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Business, Land, Want

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers (Life of Eugene V. Debs, p. 71), 1908.

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• If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Needs

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• I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

  Ruth Stout

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Acceptance, Done, Steps

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• It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

  Graeme Murphy

  Dance, Art, Believe

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• If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Religion, Degrees

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• One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.

  Bill Nighy

  Regret, Smoking, Say Anything

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• The only weapon I had was my dancing.
  With that I fought like a general without an army.
  If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle
  it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.

  Maya Plisetskaya

  Dance, Struggle, Army

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• Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

  Chet Baker

  Music, Play, Jazz

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• If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Teamwork, Team Work, Collaboration

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• As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

  Roger Maris

  Baseball, Doubt, Would Be

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• If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hands, Asking, Answers

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Maturity, Our World

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4096, Delphi Classics

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• I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Long Ago, Giving

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Pincus-Witten, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (1986). “Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986”, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Incorporated

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• I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor Frankl, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1946.

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