If I Could Quotes - Page 3

• 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 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 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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• If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Gun, America, Second Amendment

  "60 Minutes" Interview, www.youtube.com. February 05, 1995.

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• How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

  Alice James

  Sick, Selfishness, Twenties

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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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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• You made me happy and you made me laugh, and if I could do it all over again, I would not hesitate. Look at our life, at the trips we took, the adventures we had. As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Father, Adventure

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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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• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  Helen Keller

  Educational, Names, Smell

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Needs

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• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

  Lewis Hine

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  Lewis Wickes Hine, Daile Kaplan (1992). “Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Age, Library

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• I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Funny, Football

  " Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write."

  Elliot Perlman

  Art, Children, Motivation

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• First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Jobs, Kids

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• Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely limited. I began to call up memories of places, people, events, food-anything I could do to occupy my mind and remind myself that, even if I was being treated like an animal, I was still a living breathing human being.

  Shawn Thompson

  Memories, Loneliness, Mean

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• If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

  Danny Masterson

  Softball, Player, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

  Brent Musburger

  Golf, Play, Telephones

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• Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

  Mark Twain

  Perseverance, Stars, Tired

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2762, GENERAL PRESS

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• Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Gambling

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• If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

  Paris Hilton

  Funny, Book, Dumb

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