I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If only my heart were stone.”
Source: The Road
“if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)
“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple - you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)
“If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. If one little Jewish boy survives without any Jewish education, with no synagogue and no Hebrew school, it [Judaism] is in his soul. Even if there had never been a synagogue or a Jewish school or an Old Testament, the Jewish spirit would still exist and exert its influence. It has been there from the beginning and there is no Jew, not a single one, who does not personify it.”
“If only one day,
their worlds could meet,
just halfway.
She would outplay,
the distance rest,
blaming the roads,
led her astray.
But only if,
they could meet,
just halfway.”
“If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.”
“If only one generation takes action in raising their children as humans, rather than raising boys and girls, the future human civilization shall get rid of the sinister phenomenon of misogyny sooner than you can imagine.”
“If only one had time to think!”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?”
“If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.”
Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“If only one person dies for the cause, a hundred people realize their humanity.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.”
“If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.”
“If only one word of the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is understood, then your welfare [that which liberates] is done.”
“If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out.”
“If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.”
“If only our lives had background music.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“If only our words would light up the hearts of others - like the sun awakening spring trees and flowers. We might not worry about the evening shadows any longer.”
Source: Hiljainen Hetki: Runo- ja valokuvateos vuodenaikoihin
“If only parents would listen! If only they would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching and nagging and correcting and yacking, yacking, yacking! But they won’t listen! They simply won’t or can’t or don’t want to listen, and we kids keep winding up back in the same old frustrating, lost, lonely corner with no one to relate to either verbally or physically.”
Source: Go Ask Alice
“If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them “too much effort.”
Source: The Darkest Whisper
“If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.”
Source: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
“If only people could understand me,
And know how I want to live.
Trust me, there would be a real smile on my face,
Rather than slightly curvy lips.”
“If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.”
“If only people knew how much I preferred to sit in the background, knowledgeable and capable, but not in the spotlight.”
Source: Cirque de la Nuit
“if only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place”
“If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.”
“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.”
“If only people were trees… I might like them better.”
“If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.”
“If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.”
Source: As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister
“If only prices of food could be falling drastically — like standards!”
“If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.”
Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers
“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.”
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.”
“If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.”
“If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.”
“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread out on top of it. It was the best time of her”
Source: The Book Thief
“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“If only she could feel what she’s supposed to be feeling: the celebratory mood of youth.”
Source: In Limbo
“If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“If only she had the same love that Gabriel and Stephanie shared; how different her life would have turned out before now. Sadly, she feels that it is too late for her, that her chance for a real and fulfilling love she could share is gone.
Thoughts of being broken beyond repair, feeling that nothing in the world was going to make her happy; she concluded that this was going to be what was left of her life.
At sixty-two years old, she is in a marriage with no future. Living a life of doubt, lack of self-esteem and confidence had become her “norm.” Truly, she believed that there was no miracle waiting for her to mend her broken soul. This self-fulling destiny was killing her”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?”
Source: Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs
“If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“If only simple advice were as simple to carry out.”
Source: Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul
“If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.”
“If only someone could step up and make the change that was needed.”
Source: Once I Knew
“If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.”