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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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• If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

  Anita Baker

  Birthday, Dumb, Junk

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• It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

  Taryn Manning

  Use, Actors, Singers

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• There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog for longer than five days. I don't know how I would deal with kissing my children as I left for work. I know there are women who are able to do that. I don't know if I could.

  Anjelica Huston

  Goodbye, Dog, Children

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• I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, Commitment, Thinking

  "Kids" by Margaret Cho, margaretcho.com. September 6, 2012.

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• If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

  Dai Vernon

  Men, Magic, Would Be

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• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

  Robin Trower

  Guitar, Ifs, Guitarist

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• I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

  Rodney Carrington

  Would Be, Comedy, Hardest

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• What's amazing to me now is that I actually recall fixating on the fact that my thighs a-l-m-o-s-t touched at the top....If I could go back in time and slap my eighteen-year-old self, I would. I would tell her to snap out of it, because that's the best you thighs will ever be. You should take pictures of your thighs right now so you can remember how amazing they were!

  Anita Renfroe

  Self, Years, Facts

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• I have wished a bird would fly away,
  And not sing by my house all day;
  Have clapped my hands at him from the door
  When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
  The fault must partly have been in me.
  The bird was not to blame for his key.
  And of course there must be something wrong
  In wanting to silence any song.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Keys, Doors

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.331, Harvard University Press

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• I grew up with siblings, so if I could just snap my fingers and have four [children], I would have four

  Kim Kardashian

  Children, Sibling, Four

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• If i could be a superhero, i would be Superman. He can fly, he is strong... even though i'm not that strong

  Greyson Chance

  Strong, Superhero, Would Be

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• If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.

  Jean Sibelius

  Writing, Expression, Use

  Interview with Berlingske Tidende, June 10, 1919.

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• If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

  Paul Baloche

  Song, Prayer, Writing

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