If I Could Quotes - Page 9

• Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence?

  Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

  Infinite Time, Space, Groups

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• If I could teach my children only one thing, it would be the skill of marketing. For with that skill, they could be successful at anything they chose for the rest of their lives.

  Howard Ruff

  Children, Successful, Skills

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• It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

  Joey Skaggs

  Faith, Easier, Ifs

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• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Artist, Should Have, Ifs

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• I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

  Ronald Biggs

  Want, Return, England

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

  Jack Irons

  Fall, Years, Albums

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• If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

  G. H. Hardy

  Sorry, Sorrow, Would Be

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• It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Lying, Opportunity, Years

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• I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Brother, Thinking, Really Happy

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• I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.

  Joe Lando

  Dream, Opportunity, Chicago

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• I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

  Guy Sajer

  Love, Disappointment, War

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• If I could sing, it would be lovely.

  John Deacon

  Lovely, Would Be, Ifs

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• I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

  Rumi

  Break Out, Asking, Answers

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Believe, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Laughter, Tears

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• If I could change anything about Garden State, it would be to cast somebody else for the female lead. Natalie just isn't really that good of an actress. Especially when compared to me. Just watch the two of us, it's light and dark. I am by far the better Jew.

  Zach Braff

  Dark, Garden, Light

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• I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Heart, Moon

  "Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.

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• In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

  Richard Stallman

  Pain, Wish, World

  "Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 19, 2010.

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• If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Life, Change, Complaining

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• If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Wish, Quality

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• If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Heart, Fire

  Edmund Wilson (2001). “I Thought of Daisy”, p.59, University of Iowa Press

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• When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Father, Nice, School

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• I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Black History

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Death, Sweet, Pain

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.7, Arcade Publishing

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• If I could tell the world just one thing
  It would be that we're all OK
  And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
  And useless in times like these
  I won't be made useless
  I won't be idle with despair
  I will gather myself around my faith
  For light does the darkness most fear
  
  My hands are small, I know
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  And I am never broken

  Jewel

  Love, Light, Times Like These

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