If I Could Quotes

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.

If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

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

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...

If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.

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.

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.'

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.