Top 1200 If I Could Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Dreams, in their essence, include risk. This risk could be physical danger (often true in climbing big mountains like Everest), or it could be financial (leaving a comfortable job and pouring your life savings into a business venture), or it could be emotional (like the feelings of loss and questioning that comes with losing friends and coworkers to climbing accidents).

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles were coming from.

He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his.

When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I've always wanted to experience that.

I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say "their life" I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

At the age of 50, I did "Celebrity Fit Club" and I had to get on a scale and be weighed in front of everyone. I felt like I was naked and for the first time, there was nowhere to hide. I felt like I could finally be myself. It was really cathartic, and I realized I could share my mistakes. I could tell my story and not be ashamed, and show others with these same problems that they aren't alone.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could act as a prologue.

This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.

I knew, back when I was starting up, that if I had something that could be developed for the mass market, I could really take it forward.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.

If I could bust out and eat anything... if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.

I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

It's so funny. I honestly thought every one of those people on the show could beat anyone at any time anywhere. You just have to have a slightly off day or moment or two or you missed a touch of acid. It has nothing to do with credentials. Anyone could've chopped anyone at any time. I had to look at myself as the one who could lose this the most.

Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.

I could have screamed, but I didn’t. I could have fought, but I didn’t. I just lay there and let it happen, watching the winter-white sky go gray above me.

I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.

Tim Hardaway was a guy who had his crossover and then he could shoot a jump shot and he could get to the bucket.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

I wish you could make money and people never saw what you did. Then you could relax and not care about how bad you are.

You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

I love my babies so much that I could kiss them all day long..as a job. I could be a professional baby kisser. No joke.

I hoped this was true. Even if it wasn?t, all I could do was hand over what I could, with the hope of something in return. But of course, this was easier said than done.

I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss. Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and I'll need a standby pair.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.