If I Could Quotes - Page 2

• I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor Frankl, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1946.

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• I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Giving

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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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• One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.

  Bill Nighy

  Regret, Smoking, Say Anything

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• Flower in the crannied wall,
  I pluck you out of the crannies,
  I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
  Little flower-but if I could understand
  What you are, root and all, all in all,
  I should know what God and man is.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1039, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Attitude, Belief

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 10, 2012

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• If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

  Jim Croce

  Birthday, Bottles, Firsts

  Song: Time In A Bottle

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• I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Cutting, Would Be, Fame

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• If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

  Richard Lugar

  Reading, Thoughtful, Odds

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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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• 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 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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• If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Life And Love, Enemy, Rooms

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.138

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• If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Nine, Lasts

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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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• I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.

  George S. Patton

  Army, White, Age

  Letter to his mother from Chamlieu, France, November 20, 1917.

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• I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

  Queen Latifah

  Regret, Years, Self

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• If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

  Nigella Lawson

  Funny, Dumb, Trophies

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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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• I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Nba

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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 learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Triumph, Bliss, Disaster

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• I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

  Thomas Browne

  Honesty, Heaven, Hell

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 47.

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• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

  Randy Pausch

  Honesty, Giving, Advice

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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