I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.”
Source: The Time Machine
“If only I have right of seeing
In this wilderness of being
And from the vision glorious
Must come back to my lonely house.”
Source: Collected Poems and Translations
“If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.”
“If only I knew... If only baby... If only...”
“If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.”
“If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.”
“If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.”
“If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.”
“If only I were magic like him, then I could keep him without having to keep him in the dark.”
Source: Gravity’s Fire
“If only I were still a child, and this were all a bad dream.”
Source: War Storm
“If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.”
“If only, if only, if only…but there is no “if” – there’s just reality in TRUTH.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs,
The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer.
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
He cries to the moo-oo-oon, If only, if only.”
Source: Holes
“If only in the beginning someone said i wish us both to do more than survive”
“If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.”
“If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so. . .there wouldn't be any point to be by your side... —kakeru manabe”
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
“If only it were as easy to do the work of others
as it is to criticize their performance.”
“If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.”
“If only it were over, done, without the awful doing of it.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.”
Source: Rilke in Paris
“If only it were possible to dig behind the coming weeks and know! The clouds above the mountains had been a bad sign, but not in the way she had imagined. Instead of the wreck there had been another experience which perhaps would prove more disastrous in its results. As usual she was being saved up for something worse than she expected. But she did not believe it was to be Tunner, so that it really was not important how she behaved now with regard to him. The other omens indicated a horror more vast, and surely ineluctable. Each escape merely made it possible for her to advance into a region of heightened danger. "In that case," she thought, "why not give in? And if I should give in, how would I behave? Exactly the same as now." So that giving in or not giving in had nothing to do with her problem. She as pushing against her own existence. All she could hope to do was eat, sleep and cringe before her omens.”
Source: The Sheltering Sky
“If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American
“If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.”
“If only, it were written on men’s faces how they would
eventually be, things could work. Relationships would thrive. But
my darling, only time is the real deal and the answer to one’s
integrity. Time reveals one’s allegiance. People are, who they are.
Their intentions, however, either get revealed or change over a
period of time. Hard truth!”
Source: LOVE TOUCHES ONCE & NEVER LEAVES ...A Blooming & Moving Love Saga!
“If only Jason could have reached out to us. Any one of us. He could have saved himself. But you know what? Some people don't want to be saved. Because saving means changing. And changing is aways harder then staying the same. It takes courage to face yourself in the mirror and look beyond the reflection. To find the you that you should have ben. The you who got derailed by crul childhood events. Events that took your life's natural trajectory and twisted it. Changing it into something unmaginable... or even incredible...... giving you thecourage to embrace your birthright, you destiny, and finaly realize... that you ARE BATMAN.”
Source: Batman: Battle for the Cowl
“If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.”
“If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.”
“If only Karl had made Capital, instead of just writing about it.”
“If only letting go of memories was as easy as letting go of people.”
“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”
“If only life could be a little more tender & art a little more robust.” Alan Rickman.”
“If only life could be lived backward, we'd know the mistakes not to make,' Kylee thought, 'and instead of losing all we knew peck by merciless peck, time would return things to us every day, bringing back everything we didn't yet know we'd lost.”
Source: Black Wings Beating
“If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.”
“If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.”
“If only loud people were even half as interesting as they think they are.”
“If only love were so easily conquered, there wouldn't be so many broken hearts.”
“If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.”
“If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.”
Source: Lucia, Lucia: A Novel
“If only men could take a turn at childbirth, risk their lives for it. Let women rest, let women live on. Then what would the world become?”
Source: All Our Yesterdays
“If only men could think less of what money can buy and think MORE of what it cannot buy, they would not be enslaved by it.”
“If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. --- Lucy”
“If only more Christians read their bibles there'd be less Christians.”
“If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.”
“If only more people lived in cities with decent public transportation and intrinsically low carbon emissions per capita. If only more people were more civilized.”
Source: In Limbo
“If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.”
“If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.”
“If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.”
“If only my genitals didn't float
When I relaxed in the bath
And we both looked down and we both agreed
It's stupid to be a man”