If I Could Quotes - Page 20

• If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Black, Use, Ifs

  "The life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A". Book by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, p. 296, 1879.

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• What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

  Tara Brach

  Moments, Accepting, Radical Acceptance

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• I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I can’t get anything done because I’m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But it’s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Sex, Sleep, Kissing

  "Sufjan Stevens, Robyn, Hot Chip, Blood Orange, Phosphorescent on Arthur Russell Tribute" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2014.

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• If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

  Holly Golightly

  Real, Cat, Names

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• In those days, I did what was necessary for me to win. This included training with heavy weights: a precursor for injury. So if I could do it over again I’d train with lighter weights, higher reps, no sets below 10 reps, with negatives slower than positives, and avoid injury. If I had done that, my physique wouldn’t have been quite as bulky, but with more definition and with less pain.

  Frank Zane

  Pain, Winning, Training

  "The Legend of Frank Zane: An Interview With The Man Who Achieved Physical Perfection". "Flex" Interview, www.simplyshredded.com. August 2008.

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• If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Cecil Rhodes (1902). “The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes: with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator”

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• My dad was an incredibly brave man, completely dedicated to his family, with a love for all. If I could be half the dad he was, to my children, then that will be an achievement in itself. He died 14 months exactly to the start of the 2012 Olympics. I hope he will be watching and waving his big union jack in London from somewhere else. I love you so much dad.

  Tom Daley

  Children, Dad, Love You

  "Tom Daley devasted after his father Rob loses his battle with cancer aged just 40" by Susie Boniface, www.mirror.co.uk. May 29, 2011.

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• I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

  Humphry Davy

  Religious, Believe, Blessing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 241, 1895.

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• If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

  Frank Lampard

  World, Fantastic, Could Have Been

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• I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?' So that’s the time I joined the Ku Klux Klan in Miami. The reason I joined is to see if I could change them. So I dissolved that organization in a month-and-a-half, alone. [Applause] Then I joined the White Citizen Council. The WCC hates foreigners – all foreigners. So I joined that organization; I dissolved it in one month.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hate, Organization, Ku Klux Klan

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• I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

  Miles Franklin

  Design, Wish, Would Be

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.61, The Floating Press

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Unions, Slave

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

  Lara Stone

  Thinking, Discipline, Would Be

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• Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence?

  Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

  Infinite Time, Space, Groups

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• If I could teach my children only one thing, it would be the skill of marketing. For with that skill, they could be successful at anything they chose for the rest of their lives.

  Howard Ruff

  Children, Successful, Skills

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• It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

  Joey Skaggs

  Faith, Easier, Ifs

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• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Artist, Should Have, Ifs

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• I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

  Ronald Biggs

  Want, Return, England

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

  Jack Irons

  Fall, Years, Albums

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• If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

  G. H. Hardy

  Sorry, Sorrow, Would Be

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• It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Lying, Opportunity, Years

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• I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Brother, Thinking, Really Happy

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• I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.

  Joe Lando

  Dream, Opportunity, Chicago

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• I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

  Guy Sajer

  Love, Disappointment, War

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