If I Could Quotes - Page 9

• I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• I’m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If I could help protect one of those from destruction, maybe that would be enough. Maybe it would be more than most people do.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Character, Ideas, People

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• I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

  Ernest Seyd

  Money, Winter, America

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• What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced ... what if a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me.

  Richard Bach

  Time, Jesus, Reality

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.4, Delta

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• I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.

  Bernie Williams

  Running, Reality, Years

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• If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Political, Heaven

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.585

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• When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

  John McGahern

  Romantic, Reading, Writing

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.

  Percy Grainger

  Children, Nice, People

  "How I Became a Meat-Shunner". American Vegetarian, Vol. V no. 4, p. 4, December 1946.

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• I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Names, Forever, Temples

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• What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that’s why I do what I do.”

  Greil Marcus

  Art, Moving, Sparks

  "Greil Marcus on How the Division of High vs. Low Robs Culture of Its Essence" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. May 13, 2013.

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• I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

  Mavis Gallant

  Notebook, Writing, Way

  Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.58, Everyman's Library

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• If I could have done anything more, it would have been less

  Artie Shaw

  Done, Has Beens, Ifs

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• If there is anything that I could get you to do, it would be to spend ten to fifteen minutes each morning planning your day. If I could get you to do that, you'd not only scare yourself, you'd intimidate everybody on your block.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Inspirational, Morning, Block

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• Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Men, Lazy Man, Laziness

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• All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Lying, Wish, Knows

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• I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

  Edward Everett

  War, Ideas, Two

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Believe, Struggle

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

  Diego Maradona

  Player, Goal, Champion

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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