If I Could Quotes - Page 13

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Needs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

  Daniel Johns

  Sympathy, School, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Teamwork, Team Work, Collaboration

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Giving

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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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• 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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• Flower in the crannied wall,
  I pluck you out of the crannies,
  I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
  Little flower-but if I could understand
  What you are, root and all, all in all,
  I should know what God and man is.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1039, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Attitude, Belief

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 10, 2012

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• If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

  Jim Croce

  Birthday, Bottles, Firsts

  Song: Time In A Bottle

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• I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Cutting, Would Be, Fame

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• If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

  Richard Lugar

  Reading, Thoughtful, Odds

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• Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Believe, Home

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.528, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Greatness, Would Be, Helping

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• I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  "Obama: 'I have been an imperfect father'" by Barack Obama, www.today.com. May 27, 2010.

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