If I Could Quotes - Page 33

• I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Wings, Feels

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Reef: American Literature”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• If I could only live another century!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Life, Century, Ifs

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• If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Thinking, Long

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• I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Giving, Effort

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• I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

  Mary McCarthy

  Winning, Fame, Goodness

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• I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

  John Shelby Spong

  Easter, Moving, Religion

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

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• If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Photographer, Found

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• I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

  Rick Springfield

  Dog, People, Love Of My Life

  "Rick Springfield On The Vietnam War: "I Killed Somebody"". "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight", www.cbc.ca.

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• If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Light, Be Kind, Would Be

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Care, Bones, Sin

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.

  Winifred Holtby

  Animal, Roots, Body

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

  Neal Asher

  Technology, People, Dying

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• If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

  Marisol Nichols

  Ideas, Dutch, Speak

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

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• I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

  Unknown

  Able, Slave, Thousand

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• I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.

  George Jones

  Jobs, Fields, Break

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I would love for someone to offer me a serious part in something. I don't know if I could even pull it off, but I would like to be the cowboy that rides off and someone shoots him off the horse in the middle of town. Just a serious role. It wouldn't have to be a big one.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Horse, Cowboy, Towns

  Do512 Interview, 2017.do512.com.

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• I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Voice, Lessons

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Games, Mind

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Eye, College

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Believe, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Long, People, Brain

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• If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.

  Maria Theresa

  Compassion, Wish, Earth

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• If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.

  David R. Brower

  Trying, Mountain, Population

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• I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.

  Michelle Dockery

  Cycling, Space, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?

  Nancy Allen

  Beautiful, Sexy, Smart

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