If I Could Quotes - Page 8

• I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Water, Together

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• I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...

  Syd Barrett

  Giving, Looks, Bells

  "Song: Bike (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)". August 5, 1967.

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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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• If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

  Sandy Koufax

  Golf, Swings, Tonight

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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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• In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Book, Home, Growing

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• I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

  Gregory Maguire

  Leaving, Mind, Way

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.104, Harper Collins

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• I remember, when I have preached at different times in the country, and sometimes here, that my whole soul has agonized over men, every nerve of my body has been strained and I could have wept my very being out of my eyes and carried my whole frame away in a flood of tears, if I could but win souls

  Charles Spurgeon

  Country, Eye, Winning

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 44: Sermons 2549-2602”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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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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• What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

  Tara Brach

  Moments, Accepting, Radical Acceptance

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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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• In those days, I did what was necessary for me to win. This included training with heavy weights: a precursor for injury. So if I could do it over again I’d train with lighter weights, higher reps, no sets below 10 reps, with negatives slower than positives, and avoid injury. If I had done that, my physique wouldn’t have been quite as bulky, but with more definition and with less pain.

  Frank Zane

  Pain, Winning, Training

  "The Legend of Frank Zane: An Interview With The Man Who Achieved Physical Perfection". "Flex" Interview, www.simplyshredded.com. August 2008.

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• If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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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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• I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

  Humphry Davy

  Religious, Believe, Blessing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 241, 1895.

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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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• I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

  Miles Franklin

  Design, Wish, Would Be

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.61, The Floating Press

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Unions, Slave

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

  Lara Stone

  Thinking, Discipline, Would Be

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