Top 100 Would If I Could Quotes

#1. I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

Elton John

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#2. If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.

Rita Ora

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#3. If I could buck, I would. If I could howl at the moon, then I would. To feel this, when I'd thought it was
over, when my body's closing down and I thought I'd have no pleasure from it again.
I am blessed.

Jenny Downham

Would If I Could Quotes #349596
#4. But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Jonathan Swift

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#5. If I could slam the door, I would. If I could walk to another room, I would. The best I can do is turn and head for the far corner of my cell. In prison, even goodbyes are beyond my control.

T.J. Forrester

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#6. If I could make this go away, I would. If I could stand in your place, I wouldn't hesitate. But I'm left with one choice, and that's to stand by your side through the end. I won't waver, Angel, I can promise you that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Would If I Could Quotes #1437592
#7. I know you're not like that anymore, Kane. While I don't approve of the person you used to be, I can't change the past. Lord knows I would if I could. The only thing to do is move forward, and if you want, I would love for you to do so with me.

Amanda Stone

Would If I Could Quotes #1573705
#8. I smell the fresh sea air, and have never felt so at home in my life, out on the open waters, no land as far as the eye can see. It's amazing, beautiful and the air smells of adventure, just the way it should. Just the way it always would if I could control everythig.

Naya S.

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#9. I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...

Winifred Holtby

Would If I Could Quotes #1879082
#10. I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

George R R Martin

Would If I Could Quotes #1719
#11. If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.

Richard Carrier

Would If I Could Quotes #2138
#12. If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.

Mandy Moore

Would If I Could Quotes #2665
#13. I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he would have his answer. In my heaven it bloomed. In my heaven geranium petals swirled in eddies up to my waist. On Earth nothing happened ... I stood alone in a sea of bright petals.

Alice Sebold

Would If I Could Quotes #2666
#14. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

Meghan Daum

Would If I Could Quotes #3163
#15. I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God ... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

Elvis Presley

Would If I Could Quotes #4279
#16. If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Sebastian Faulks

Would If I Could Quotes #5253
#17. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

William Shakespeare

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#18. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

Graham Greene

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#19. You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Would If I Could Quotes #7862
#20. Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

Dean Wesley Smith

Would If I Could Quotes #11282
#21. One of the most touching things my mother said to me was that if I ever wanted to come back to live in India, she would build me a home and go out and work hard so that I could be happy.

Saroo Brierley

Would If I Could Quotes #13497
#22. If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.

Will Oldham

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#23. I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.

Hillary Clinton

Would If I Could Quotes #14823
#24. I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

Ariana Grande

Would If I Could Quotes #15190
#25. If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

Stephen Chbosky

Would If I Could Quotes #15767
#26. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

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#27. I would be anyone if only I could be with you.

Shelly Thacker

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#28. In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

Lee Child

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#29. If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

Ted Shackelford

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#30. I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Would If I Could Quotes #18900
#31. 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

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#32. Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Kevin Mitnick

Would If I Could Quotes #21524
#33. If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

Brian Lumley

Would If I Could Quotes #22004
#34. The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.

Brie Larson

Would If I Could Quotes #26425
#35. I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

Wes Borland

Would If I Could Quotes #27545
#36. Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

Maya Angelou

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#37. I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

Lori Lansens

Would If I Could Quotes #31556
#38. If I could wish for one thing, it would be that I could always feel this way, completely and blissfully consumed by someone else.

Jessica Sorensen

Would If I Could Quotes #35535
#39. I fain would follow love, if that could be;
I needs must follow death, who calls for me;
Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

Alfred Tennyson

Would If I Could Quotes #36572
#40. Some would know
Why I so
Long still doe tarry,
And ask why
Here that I
Live, and not marry?
Thus I those
Doe oppose;
What man would be here,
Slave to Thrall,
If at all
He could live free here?

Robert Herrick

Would If I Could Quotes #36718
#41. But I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love. - Rose Hathaway

Richelle Mead

Would If I Could Quotes #36857
#42. When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'

Rico Rodriguez

Would If I Could Quotes #38610
#43. This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Would If I Could Quotes #39047
#44. I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn't work.

Rachel Gibson

Would If I Could Quotes #39383
#45. I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Vivienne Westwood

Would If I Could Quotes #39645
#46. 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

Would If I Could Quotes #40386
#47. I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

Donald Miller

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#48. I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.

Jim Carrey

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#49. My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.

Ronee Blakley

Would If I Could Quotes #41822
#50. If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

Chris Isaak

Would If I Could Quotes #43221
#51. As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

Annie Leibovitz

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#52. Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

Richard Hamming

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#53. I would never have to work again. I could travel where I wanted, work if and when I wanted, and be completely free. If I survived.

Michael Z. Williamson

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#54. Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

Samuel Rogers

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#55. But all I can feel right now is that someone turned on a light just long enough for me to see what I could never have, so that it would hurt me even more than if I had never seen it.

Francisco X Stork

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#56. If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

Jamie Chung

Would If I Could Quotes #52206
#57. Sex with an ex
Is it ever really painless or just inviting stress?
I mean, really
Who does that?
Oh wait, I'm sure if they could, most everyone would ...

Natasha Ramsey

Would If I Could Quotes #53551
#58. If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life
a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

Thornton T. Munger

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#59. The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

George Soros

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#60. If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.

Holly Madison

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#61. How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

Edward Thomas

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#62. I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

Louis MacNeice

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#63. I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do."

Nathan Lowell

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#64. Part of it was a feminist streak and the other part of it was the ultimate in antifeminism: a deeply rooted need in me to be accepted by my dad and by other men. If I could do the same things as them, I would be accepted into their world.

Melanie Neale

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#65. I am truly happy with what I've got. But if I could alter something, it would be my hands. I've never been satisfied with them - I would love longer fingers.

Carolina Herrera

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#66. I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this.

John Kennedy Toole

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#67. You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.

Michelle Hodkin

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#68. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

Neil Gaiman

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#69. I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could not save you.

Suzannah Rowntree

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#70. Always ask yourself the golden question: If I could master one skill today, which skill would make the biggest difference in my playing?

David Dumais

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#71. The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.

Enrico Caruso

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#72. Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Pete Townshend

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#73. If I accepted, Edmund would be our vampire servant." "Come to think of it, that sounds all kinds-a classy. He could clean our toilets. See you soon, babe.

Faith Hunter

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#74. You've never had a quick jump in the hay in your life."
"I could learn, maybe."
"You couldn't fornicate if you wanted to."
"I could try."
"It would take love or hatred to arouse you, and either one would require a slow and stately procedure.

John Steinbeck

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#75. There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

Dambisa Moyo

Would If I Could Quotes #69129
#76. Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.

Frank Warren

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#77. Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.

Eoin Colfer

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#78. I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

Michael Gira

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#79. I wonder what I would find if I could go back and decipher the layers, if it were possible to delve into my past that way, but realize that, even if it were possible, it would be futile.

S.J. Watson

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#80. You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me.

Emile Gaboriau

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#81. If I could only make her fall in love with me. Pretend to be a writer and just fuck her and have her cook for me. I would never have to write I'd just pretend.

Charles Bukowski

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#82. The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

Gene Siskel

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#83. A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

Bertrand Piccard

Would If I Could Quotes #76338
#84. I don't have an interest in being a director-for-hire on sitcoms - but if it's a really cool show that I thought I could bring something to, I would love to do that.

Jake M. Johnson

Would If I Could Quotes #77443
#85. Nanda remembers, "His face could express the tiniest of nuances with ease. If he was jealous, there would be a smirk on his face. If he was sad, his eyes reflected it immediately. I consider him the finest actor we have, along with Dilip Kumar.

Lata Khubchandani

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#86. I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.

Ricky Williams

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#87. 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

Would If I Could Quotes #84907
#88. We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father?

Amy Carmichael

Would If I Could Quotes #86408
#89. If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

Barbara Corcoran

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#90. To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

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#91. I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.

Kingsley Amis

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#92. If I could, I would bottle your laugh and drink it so that the feeling you give me would forever live inside.

Andrea Michelle

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#93. I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

Robert McCloskey

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#94. My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

Bobby Flay

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#95. It is a hard thing to let your children near danger, and yet, I remember my Papa teaching me to fire a rifle before I could even hold it with my own strength. And if he hadn't trusted me to be careful, I would have never had faith in myself to do it.

Nancy E. Turner

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#96. If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

Allison Janney

Would If I Could Quotes #90689
#97. I believed that if I had the whole story, if I had the opportunity to really know the person I was sitting with, there would be nobody I could not love.

Laurie A. Helgoe

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#98. Once a man I was leaving told me I could go if I would leave my skin behind. I was so young I didn't even know that I was wonderful..

Ellen Gilchrist

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#99. But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road.

Jim Cantalupo

Would If I Could Quotes #93899
#100. I would let you take me through a million nightmares if it meant that I could have one dream with you.

B. Mauritz

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