If I Could Quotes

• 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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• 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 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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• In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Struggle, Humility, Passion

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.139, Applewood Books

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• When he finally stopped calling, the hush felt strange. It felt like the whole world went silent when Marc did, as if I could see peoples mouths moving, but I couldnt hear what they were saying. Like I'd gone deaf.

  Rachel Vincent

  Moving, Gone, Calling

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.150, MIRA

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• I shut up everything inside. Everything." Words ground out through clenched teeth. "I thought if I could hold it, just hold it, it would be fine. But it's not." "Why?" she asked. "Why are you losing control so badly?" The answer, when it came, broke Sascha's heart. "Hawke." It was an almost soundless whisper. "Oh, Sienna." She stroked her hand over the girl's hair, even as her mind worked at piercing speed. "Has it been cumulative?" Sienna nodded. "The second I met him, everything crumbled, my shields, my conditioning, everything!

  Nalini Singh

  Girl, Heart, Hair

  Nalini Singh (2011). “The Psy-Changeling eBook Collection”, p.929, Hachette UK

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• I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

  J. D. Salinger

  I Hate You, Mean, Puddles

  "Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno - review" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.

  Galen Beckett

  Strong, Heart, Thinking

  Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam

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• If I could reach from pole to pole
  or grasp the ocean with a span,
  I would be measured by the soul
  The mind's the standard of the Man.

  Isaac Watts

  Ocean, Men, Soul

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• I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Food, Alive, Ridiculous

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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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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• I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Pain, Rain

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.“ She nods her head slowly. „What do you think you‘d look like?” “Smaller, for a start.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Thinking, Skins, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.91, Penguin

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• In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Moving, Sleep

  "Fragile Things". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2006.

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• I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dancer, Calendars, Legs

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• If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

  André Aciman

  Dream, Night, Done

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.109, Macmillan

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• For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

  Henry Fielding

  Sorry, Giving, Demand

  Henry Fielding (2015). “History of Tom Jones: the History Focus”, p.72, 谷月社

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• I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Gun, Blue, Tin Cans

  "Fictional character: Atticus Finch". "To Kill a Mockingbird", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Sea, Ink

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 10, 2014

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• Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten thousand suns. So when I walk - nay, crawl - out of here at the end of my workouts, I want to lull myself to sleep by picturing my very talented and inspirational trainer getting hit by a bus. A bus that I am driving.

  Jen Lancaster

  Workout, Hate, Sleep

  Jen Lancaster (2007). “Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?”, p.352, Penguin

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• You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. "Or because you pity me?" I couldn't guess which possibility he loathes more. I fold my arms. "I can't leave because the door's locked. Believe me, I would've gone hours ago if I could have." "Oh. Of course." Then he looks so abashed--so boyish, and so handsome--that I almost want to laugh.

  Claudia Gray

  Believe, Eye, Doors

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• Now, if I could get Mark to put down his phone and stop taking breaks, we’d be able to finish up before Oprah comes on.” – Bubba “Bubba, what are you going to do when they cancel her show?” – Caleb “Shut your mouth, boy. That’s sacrilege in this store. You talk like that, and I’ll toss you through the window like an old-timey hobo in a Western.” – Bubba

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Phones, Taking A Break

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