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If I Could I Would Quotes

I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine.
- John Banville

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
- Ned Beatty

If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on.
- Elora Bishop

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
- Emily Bronte

Isis, I am envious of every male that sets his sight on you, and if I could, I would tear out their eyes.
- Nely Cab

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
- William Merritt Chase

[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I'm making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she's given me pain.
- Rachel Cohn

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

And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
- J K Rowling

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.
- Guy De Maupassant

Okay." The boy placed his hands on the table. "The thing is ... I died before I got to see real live tits. Not just on the Internet." He hurried to add, "I wouldn't touch you or nothing. Obviously. But even if I could, I wouldn't do that to you." He looked at his hands as he dropped them into his lap. "I just want to see.
- Jeri Smith Ready

With the supplies gathered, he went over to the stainless-steel sink and pressed the foot pedal to get the water running. While he washed his hands, he said quietly, "If I could, I would."
"Excuse me?"
Qhuinn pumped some suds into his palms and scrubbed all the way up his forearms. Which was overkill, but if Blay wanted him superclean, then that was what he was going to be. "If I could love a guy like that, it would be you.
- J R Ward

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