If I Could Quotes - Page 21

• If I could sing, it would be lovely.

  John Deacon

  Lovely, Would Be, Ifs

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• I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

  Rumi

  Break Out, Asking, Answers

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Believe, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Laughter, Tears

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• If I could change anything about Garden State, it would be to cast somebody else for the female lead. Natalie just isn't really that good of an actress. Especially when compared to me. Just watch the two of us, it's light and dark. I am by far the better Jew.

  Zach Braff

  Dark, Garden, Light

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• I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Heart, Moon

  "Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.

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• In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

  Richard Stallman

  Pain, Wish, World

  "Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 19, 2010.

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• If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Life, Change, Complaining

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• If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Wish, Quality

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• If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Heart, Fire

  Edmund Wilson (2001). “I Thought of Daisy”, p.59, University of Iowa Press

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• When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Father, Nice, School

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• I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Black History

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Death, Sweet, Pain

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.7, Arcade Publishing

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• If I could tell the world just one thing
  It would be that we're all OK
  And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
  And useless in times like these
  I won't be made useless
  I won't be idle with despair
  I will gather myself around my faith
  For light does the darkness most fear
  
  My hands are small, I know
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  And I am never broken

  Jewel

  Love, Light, Times Like These

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• If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Lying, Writing

  Sonnet 17

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• What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Pain, Giving

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• O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!

  Josephine Bakhita

  Voice, People, Catholic

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• My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Roots, Light

  John Ruskin, David Carrier, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes (1997). “England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste”, p.44, Psychology Press

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• Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.

  T. H. White

  Beautiful, Simple, Would Be

  T. H. White (1983). “The Maharajah and Other Stories”, Berkley

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• If I could choose the perfect Dad
  There's no one I would rather
  Have Dad, than you Dad
  Coz you go further, Father
  Happy Birthday Father

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Father, Perfect

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• If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you!

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Father, World

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• If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

  Trent Reznor

  Life, Way, Miles

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• It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

  Michael Schenker

  Dream, Play, Would Be

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• If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

  Allison Janney

  Animal, Hands, Would Be

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• If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dancing, Said, Ifs

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