Top 100 If We Could Quotes
#1. How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
Brother Lawrence
#2. If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being.
Deepak Chopra
#3. I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.
Gloria Steinem
#4. We're looking to identify funds if we can. We're also looking at other resources to assist the government in making this a reality, ... At this point, we don't have a particular source of funding for that but we're still looking if we could help in finding another way to assist.
Thomas G. Glenn
#5. If we could see a graph of how much pain and limitation we cause in our own lives through the lies we tell ourselves, we would immediately eliminate this nasty habit.
Steve Maraboli
#6. And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.
Prince Philip
#8. If we could see our lives objectively, we could see that they are not something we should inflict on anyone.
Peter Singer
#9. If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emil Cioran
#10. Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
Larry Holmes
#11. If we could have just done something so dreadful and Father said That's sad too people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today and I said, You can shirk all things and he said, Ah can you.
William Faulkner
#12. If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
George Carlin
#14. We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.
Hank Green
#15. How simpler our lives would be if we could stay the same! We are here on the planet to learn, grow, and evolve.
Pamela Cummins
#16. We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could.
John Cale
#17. If we could see ourselves the way that others see us, we would be amazed.
Zan Perrion
#18. If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree ...
Rex Harrison
#19. If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#20. I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say that we would do it because we would be locked up if you go by my video version of it but just in our minds, if we could have our way with a relationship gone bad. So it's crazy.
Missy Elliot
#21. I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers to the Bahamas; we'd swim there if we could. For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend.
Angie Thomas
#22. If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'
John F. MacArthur
#23. It's too bad you can't always live as if it were the last moment of your life. Because, you know, it might be-it might really be. And if we could really see it that way, really live like that, I think we'd all feel a lot differently about everything.
Andrew Klavan
#24. As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
Octavia Spencer
#25. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of hurtful feelings and memories the same way we so easily send a bad picture sailing into our computer's trash can?
Liz Fenton
#26. Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin Powell
#27. The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.
Maureen Howard
#28. For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be in some of its relations as mysterious as if it were a hundred.
George MacDonald
#29. The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.
James Gustave Speth
#30. I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.
Malcolm X
#31. If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Vinoba Bhave
#32. Well, we had our shot. And we werent handling our inheritance very well. I bet if we could somehow go back and interview the dinosaurs before the asteroid struck..
Rick Yancey
#33. What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.
Jennifer Niven
#34. If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.
Marion Woodman
#35. Wouldn t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.
Judy Garland
#36. It would be lovely if we could gather up all the evil people and put them together on one island, leaving them to self-destruct in their collective sinfulness.
Matthew Kelly
#37. If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
John Steinbeck
#38. If we could be seen thinking, we would show blown bright one moment, dark the next, like embers; subject to every passing word and thought of our own or other people's, mostly other people's.
Dorothy Whipple
#39. If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.
Elizabeth George
#40. If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.
Karen Armstrong
#41. If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
Solomon Burke
#42. If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.
Marvin J. Ashton
#43. Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.
Stephen Baldwin
#44. It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.
Winston Churchill
#48. 12-27-10
Palace Hotel, San Francisco- Over Christmas
In bed, lights out:
O: 'Oh, oh, oh...!'
I: 'What was that for?'
O: 'I found your fifth rib.'
In the middle of the night: 'Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?' O whispers.
Bill Hayes
#49. If we could be heroes, if just for one day.
David Bowie
#50. If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.
Judah Smith
#51. I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.
Andy Warhol
#52. It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
Muriel Barbery
#53. We fell asleep wrapped in each other as if we could not bear to part, even in sleep we could not bear to let each other go.
Philippa Gregory
#54. I wanted to know if we could live in that state of love, not just every so often, but as an ongoing reality. The answer is YES. There are people who are doing just that, and I wanted to share with the world how they're consistently living in a state of love.
Marci Shimoff
#55. The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.
Rand Paul
#56. I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.
Ella Henderson
#57. Life would be so simple if we could re-write the bad parts but since we can't, let's make the good parts worth writing about
Sharlay
#58. Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?
Sara Gruen
#59. There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value
Piero Ferrucci
#61. 88. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book all learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me." 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see. 90.
Maggie Nelson
#62. We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz Kafka
#63. Capture Nikolai. Put him in a cage. See if we could pull him from the shadow's grasp. The too-clever fox, finally caught. I blinked and looked away. I didn't want to cry again.
Leigh Bardugo
#64. We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in different views. Somehow, if we could remove those glasses, we can see the world with real colors. Name of the most difficult to remove glass is 'there are permanent things of mine.
Muditha Champika
#65. Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.
Tom Stoppard
#66. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.
Prince Philip
#67. Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
Terence McKenna
#68. The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.
Charles Spurgeon
#69. I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.
Lawrence Block
#70. If only we could always say our truths--if we could name the things that haunt us--maybe they could float up from us like the kind of helium that the birds would sip in the treetops. Then they would make us laugh and laugh.
Rita Zoey Chin
#71. We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.
Edward Abbey
#72. I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Orson Welles
#73. Republicans: 'we fought the good fight' - yeah, it woulda been worth it if we could have prevented just one poor kid from getting a free inhaler.
Bill Maher
#74. It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.
Ellen G. White
#75. If we could carry an awareness of being with us into each day, allowing it to influence the way we do things, and how we relate to others, we might find ourselves living a very different kind of life; maybe then we would fully embrace the deeper truth of what it means to be a human being.
Stephen Denham
#76. We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
Adam Riess
#77. When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.
Andrew Buchan
#78. If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
Augustus
#79. What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?
Susan Block
#80. If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them. But until that day their untiring joys and sorrows must ever be one-half of their fascination. Love with them never grows weary, nor can the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet.
W.B.Yeats
#81. Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.
Frederick Lenz
#82. Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
David Crosby
#83. Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.
Haruki Murakami
#84. How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.
Karen Quan
#85. If we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent welfare state.
George F. Will
#86. Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.
Mercedes Lackey
#87. It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
Peter Lynch
#88. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.
C.S. Lewis
#89. Just imagine how difficult it would've been to create churches, states or laws, if we could only speak about things that really exist, like lions or rivers
Yuval Noah Harari
#90. Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.
Paul Bloom
#91. What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears ... as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#92. If we could make it work will you give us a chance?
Brey King
#93. I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.
Merton Miller
#94. If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore De Balzac
#95. A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go in the sea.
Cassandra Clare
#96. This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#97. If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
Lewis H. Lapham
#99. Many times we are our worst enemy. If we could learn to conquer ourselves, then we will have a much easier time overcoming the obstacles that are in front of us.
Stephan Labossiere
#100. I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
Hannah Simone
