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If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.
— Nicole Lyons
All men would be cowards if they could.
— John Wilmot
If you could use that rewind button, would you? turn things back the way they used to be?
— Winna Efendi
It was one lesson that she could not bring herself to learn. If someone was going to tell a lie, they would tell it with a smile.
— Joseph R. Lallo
I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
— Amanda Smith
Since Ireland's independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.
— Jennifer Harrison
Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I'd have to let the dog eat her.)
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.
— Craig Finn
I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
— C.J. Anderson
I could have drowned today. If they hadn't been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn't woken up, I would have drowned.
— Erica Sehyun Song
If only they could stay young & beautifull like most of them desire, then we would probably stay young too
— Zundap
58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci).
— Maggie Nelson
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
— William F. Buckley Jr.
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.
— Confucius
If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.
— Melanie Griffith
What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet.
— John Adams
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.
— Josephine Baker
The siblings wished that if Mr. Poe were really jealous of them he would attend Prufrock Preparatory School himself, and they could work at the bank.
— Lemony Snicket
I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
— Esther Williams
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
— Belva Lockwood
Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.
— Joseph Hall
Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
— Marvin Minsky
If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.
— Arthur M. Jolly
The silences between us would've been better if they were colored with sadness or regret, but it was worse - I could hear how happy he was to be gone.
— Emma Cline
A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.
— Earl Nightingale
If a person could discard 99% of their life and experience only the best 1%, would they think life a grand and beautiful thing?
— Peter Tieryas
I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.
— Pauline Quirke
If my nipples could ejaculate, they would.
— Kendall Grey
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
— Jack Handy
Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.
— Thomas Roma
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
— John Green
I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.
— Emily Dickinson
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
— Duke Of Wellington
They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him - if he could love what he saw in the mirror.
— Brent Weeks
I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.
— Anthony Bourdain
If they could, women would put make-up on the rainbow.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
— John Lubbock
If your eyes could speak, what would they say?.
— Markus Zusak
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
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
— George Eliot
Would you love people the same if they could never die?
— Eric Greitens
If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
— John Tillotson
I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.
— Greg Gutfeld
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.
— Dana Gould
They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A kid of your age - any kid - could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?
— Stephen King
A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
— J. D. Hayworth
If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?
— Smokey Robinson
It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid.
— Drew Nellins Smith
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
— Fay Weldon
She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it.
— Toni Morrison
If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.
— Jaden Smith
The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.
— Octavian Paler
The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.
— J.K. Rowling
How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot
— Sara Shepard
I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?
— Paul Rudnick
If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.
— Debbie Reynolds
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
— Douglas William Jerrold
If I could retrieve my words I would, grab them out of the sky and hide them where they can't be seen.
— Leanne Hall
Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?
— Matt Papa
It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.
— Sam Hamill
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
— Abigail Adams
He could accept people with failings - even forgive them - but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change.
— Brandon Sanderson
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!
— Vincent De Paul
If the dead were truly to come back, what would they come back knowing? Could we face them? We who allowed them to die?
— Joan Didion
Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.
— Evan Esar
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
— Eugene Mirman
Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?
— Andy Andrews
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
— Vaughn Monroe
If one could see an infinite distance, they would observe the back of their head. That is Einstein's theory in a nut-shell.
— R. Alan Woods
It is said that if dogs could tell us all they have seen, it would magically stitch together all the gaps in our lives.
— Steven Rowley
If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.
— Cindy Crawford
Her body became liquid, and she thought, if they could bottle him, he would make the best pain medication.
— Marissa Meyer
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
— Marguerite Young
History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.
— Allan Nevins
If the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story." - Magnetic Reverie
— Nico J. Genes
My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn't sustain us.
— Michelle Obama
Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams
— David McCullough
Normal girls didn't want their boobs mauled either, and I wholly believed if they could've landed a fist like I could, they would have.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.
— Betty Jane Wylie
Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could.
— Lindsey Graham
She could just kill them. If she did they would be healed again in moments She'd better let sleeping demons lie.
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If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.
— Takeshi Kaneshiro
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
If only those old walls could talk ... how boring they would be.
— Robert Benchley