Top 100 If You Could Quotes
#1. Who likes to encounter bad weather? But what if you could take advantage of adverse forces that you run into? What if you could turn adversity into opportunity or leverage it positively?
Karla Robertson
#2. Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead
#3. People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!
If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,
you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.
Rumi
#4. If you could only hear what I dream.
Billy Joel
#5. If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn't slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn't you know?
Rumi
#6. Stanley took a shower - if you could call it that, ate dinner - if you could call it that, and went to bed - if you could call his smelly and scratchy cot a bed.
Louis Sachar
#7. What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?
Lori Lesko
#8. There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense ... You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.
Larry Ellison
#9. We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
Neil Tennant
#10. You can't smell a hug. You can't hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding.
Nigel Slater
#11. Sweetheart, if it's not too much of an imposition, I would be forever beholden to you if you could kindly assume a reclining position so I can screw your brains out.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#12. If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.
Kim Basinger
#13. The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.
Mark Doty
#14. The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else ... no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.
C.S. Lewis
#15. along with the rest of our helpless world; and, O, if you could, you would, where lovers walked, sell off trees and not give a flying fuck for the muted mausoleums of the bees.
Carol Ann Duffy
#16. Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.
Wayne Dyer
#17. The professors in the academy say, "Do not make the model more beautiful than she is," and my soul whispers, "O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.
Kahlil Gibran
#18. You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again.
Richelle Mead
#19. If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?
Gregory David Roberts
#20. Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
Fran Lebowitz
#21. Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
John Darnielle
#22. If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#23. What would you do, if you could do anything?
Sarah Dessen
#24. If you could see for yourself then there'd be no need to lend an ear to what others said.
Koushun Takami
#25. If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
Wayne Rogers
#26. The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.
Kate McGahan
#27. You couldn't care about me. if you could hold me in your hand, me, you would be disgusted. You would throw me to the ground and grind me under your foot.
Stephenie Meyer
#28. Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
Black Thought
#29. Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
Martin Scorsese
#31. So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#32. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.
Liza Palmer
#34. Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#35. Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.
Frederick Lenz
#36. God, Lay. Do you know what I would do, if you could give me another chance at this?
T. Torrest
#37. You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
James Cagney
#38. Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be?
A: You already are an animal.
Douglas Coupland
#39. There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
Joan Didion
#40. I love that Katie would never, ever, in a million years, treat anyone as blatantly shitty as you've treated her tonight. It's a shame you're so thoroughly self-absorbed that it renders you incapable of getting to know her, because believe me, if you could, you'd be a better person for it.
Kim Holden
#41. Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.
John Waters
#42. Sam's light-cycle, the car, and the jets are new of course, and other stuff. The new ones are sleeker and so contemporary, that if you could put them in a car design show they would hold up.
Daniel Simon
#43. She wants your secrets. She wants your soul. You've got to crack yourself open and find that broken, shameful piece of your heart that you'd hide from the world and God Himself if you could manage it. And then serve it up to her on a platter.
Tessa Dare
#44. If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.
Brian Tracy
#45. If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.
Orson Scott Card
#46. If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
Frederick Lenz
#47. If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.
P.G. Wodehouse
#48. I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
Karel Capek
#49. It was as if you could see into the sky, through it's layers and into it's core. Layers of stars, translucent blanket upon blanket. The beauty was overwhelming. The wind blew her hair, and she willed herself to stop, to breathe, to feel.
Deborah Rodriguez
#50. If you could envision ... the meaning of a tragedy ... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.
Christina Perri
#51. If you could multiply what you know in your head and your heart, your IQ and EQ, by the power of everyone you've ever e-mailed or could contact by social media and other technology, what would you do?
Erica Dhawan
#52. Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel its black nothingness. It invades your spirit, your soul like a stealthy misperception; a liquid lie that whispers and will not die, and makes you fight to stay alive.
Gloria Smith
#53. The power of the rumor mill, if you could feel it as I do, would boggle your mind.
Kristin Cashore
#54. If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance.
Wayne Dyer
#55. I've done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and bake your own breakfast, that is very satisfying.
Marco Arment
#56. Ark Storm - what if you could control the weather?
Linda Davies
#57. It's so childish, greatest country in the world. It's like saying, I have the best wife in the world. Not just the one best suited for me, the best wife in the world. And if you could have my wife, you'd kill your wife.
Bill Maher
#58. I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.
Sharon Creech
#59. My eyes would have told you everything you wanted to know in the parlor ... You would never have spouted that drivel about how I felt about Lily if you could have seen my eyes. Never.
Eloisa James
#60. "Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" - if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice - that's cold."
Vanilla Ice
#61. When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
Imani Hakim
#62. They called it the bamboo-shoot existence, the onion life, every layer you peeled away made you cry more, and even if you could find the food you couldn't get it home because dysentery was breeding in the street mud and you might trail it back to your family.
Anonymous
#63. We loved all the words in your manuscript, but we were wondering if you could maybe put them in a completely different order." Dave Coverly
Dave Coverly
#64. These were no-man's-lands, limbos of a sort, places where language did not prevail and the only protection was flight, if you could run fast enough; or submission if you couldn't.
Joyce Carol Oates
#65. In advertising, if you could get clients to laugh, they usually bought your ideas
Michael Gates Gill
#66. If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.
Jon Bon Jovi
#67. If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?
Ted Chiang
#68. If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.
Tony Robbins
#69. If you could reason with religious people, there wouldn't be any religious people.
David Mitchell
#70. If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.
Carol Alt
#71. But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?
Joanne Harris
#72. Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
Walt Disney
#73. I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'
Liza Minnelli
#74. In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.
Charlie Haden
#75. If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
George Eliot
#76. But of God you can never have a sufficiency. The more you have of God, the more you desire. If you could ever have enough of God, so that you were content with him, then God would not be God.
Meister Eckhart
#77. Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.
Shalom Auslander
#78. If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period.
Bill Bryson
#79. a belief is only really worthwhile if you could, in principle, be persuaded to believe otherwise. If your retina ended up in the same state regardless of what light entered it, you would be blind .
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#80. If you could do anything right now, at this moment, what would you do?"
The question was obviously loaded, but the answer was surprisingly simple,
"I'd be with you.
A.B. Turner
#81. I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.
Greg Gutfeld
#82. The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.
Hugh Jackman
#83. When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.
Ashish Chauhan
#84. What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?
Nido Qubein
#85. Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
Barry Lyga
#86. Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.
Cassandra Clare
#87. And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.
Robert Musil
#88. Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
Charlotte Bronte
#89. But one salient detail did emerge: you were more likely to get help if you could ask for your helper by name.
Anonymous
#90. Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.
Billy Carter
#91. If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you'd have to bring into the listening.
Derek Bailey
#92. Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
Scott Westerfeld
#93. Frustrated because it's going too fast to see but if you could see it, it wouldn't make any sense because you'd be looking too close
Brian Andreas
#94. If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.
Tim LaHaye
#95. Will, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely." "I
Arthur Conan Doyle
#96. I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.
John F. Kennedy
#97. When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
Halle Berry
#98. Some People..If you could buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth ... You would never have to worry about money again.
Tim Kirkland
#99. Maybe if you could put him on mute ... and cut off his hands ... maybe - just maybe - he'd be tolerable then.
Kody Keplinger
#100. Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.
Peter J. Carroll
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