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if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist


Yukio Mishima

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ROBIN TROWER If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.
ROBERT FANNEY You may exist in
this world--but I exist too
and I will not yield
MATTHEW QUICK I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.
DANE DEHAAN The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. T...
WAYNE DYER The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. T...
WAYNE DYER If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
RITA ORA If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
ENRICO FERMI If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not ...
NICOLAS BERGGRUEN Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, bu...
YUKIO MISHIMA When a boy…discovers that he is more given into introspection and consciousness of self than other...
YUKIO MISHIMA If reason ruled the world would history even exist?
RYSZARD KAPUśCIńSKI If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.
MEGYN KELLY If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.
BILLY HOWLE La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I w...
RICHARD T. KELLY It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything...
MICHELLE OBAMA Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
J. M. W. TURNER I would read all day if I could.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.
DOMINIC MONAGHAN If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
BARRY MCGEE If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
GARY VAYNERCHUK If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.
BLAKE LIVELY Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
DAVID SEDARIS The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
ALBERT CAMUS If we repealed all the laws of the world, ... marriage would still exist.
TOM MCCLINTOCK I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
RENE MAGRITTE Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not...
ALLIE BURKE Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in whi...
GERDA LERNER In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
If I were white, I could capture the world.
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
TIMOTHY FERRISS It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
NATALIA MAKAROVA If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
LEWIS HINE If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.
DAVID FINCHER I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.
ROD MCKUEN I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
RENNY HARLIN If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
HANNAH SIMONE If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.
RYAN STILES If I could compete at home, and never leave Rochester, I'd be in perfect condition.
KATIE HOFF If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
FRANZ KAFKA If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllab...
GEORGE ORWELL If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the corr...
H. P. LOVECRAFT If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not e...
PHILIP CROSBY Without conversion of potentials, almost nothing will exist. We could have a world of about 7.6billi...
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Our world may have changed, but the importance of integrity has not.
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BARRY MCGUIRE I changed the world; the world changed me.
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LIBBA BRAY “Beyond our own personal perception of the world existing or not existing - the world does exist" ...
DOMO GESHE What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume...
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CYNTHIA ROSS If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
CASSANDRA CLARE I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that no...
J.K. ROWLING The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he...
CHARLES D. BROAD We took that lead, and I really think that if we could have made one more stop or one more rebound, ...
BRAD BOY One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realiz...
BRUCE LIPTON I didn't want it to be another one of those movies. I could have made it five years ago if I had cha...
JASON REITMAN If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really...
VALERIE AZLYNN I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening...
BARRY MCGUIRE Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist
VOLTAIRE If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it...
CHRISTOPHER MELONI If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
FLIP WILSON If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
CARINE ROITFELD If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
BETTE MIDLER It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
ROGER MARIS If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could hav...
SYLVESTER STALLONE At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
BILLY CRYSTAL I don't know if I could date a single dad. It would depend on the guy.
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YULIA TYMOSHENKO If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in th...
MEDARD BOSS I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
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LANCE ARMSTRONG New Orleans as we know it does not exist.
MARK SMITH God's only excuse is that he does not exist
STENDHAL I didn't make a play that could have changed the game,
KAILEE WONG True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.
GUSTAV KLIMT If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.
T.K. NALIAKA Our world has changed since 911. The reality is we're not beyond being touched.
DON LEE Honest people do not exist any more, the world today belongs to Liars like me and YOu.
FRANCIS MATHEW “Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot b...
ASHISH KUMAR Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be c...
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