I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.”
Source: Rules of Civility
“If only someone would do for cows what Bambi did for deer. Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm still willing to eat a species that is only a supporting player.”
“If Only (Sonnet 1983)
If I were a fascist,
I'd press that button,
and wipe the colonizers
off the planet for good.
If I were a fascist,
I'd press that button,
and let millions of innocents
burn for a greater global good.
If I were a fascist,
I'd press that button,
sanctified of filth
we would start anew.
If only I were a fascist
like you - if only!”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“If only stupid people could have the mere intelligence to shut up while discussing serious matter, the world would go along so much better !”
“If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“If only that’s a promise one can keep.”
“If only that were true, how good would it be.”
Source: Lores of the Loren: A Peek into the Creatures' Den
“If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.”
“If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.”
“If only the court had acted more slowly,’ RBG said, and cut down one state law at a time the way she had gotten them to do with the jury and benefit cases. The justices could have been persuaded to build an architecture of women’s equality that could house reproductive freedom. She said the very boldness of Roe, striking down all abortion bans until viability, had ‘halted a political process that was moving in a reform direction and thereby, I believe, prolonged divisiveness and deferred stable settlement of the issue. (85).”
Source: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“If only the dead will return…?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.”
Source: The Great Chain of Life
“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.”
Source: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin
“If only the good were a little less heavy-footed”
“If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.”
“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather.”
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
“If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.”
“If only the know-how could be equalled by the will-to-serve, by compassion for human suffering cause by hunger and deficiency diseases, there is no reason why fully balanced diets consisting largely of plant-foods should not be made available for hundreds of millions of undernourished people in the West as well as in the Third World.”
Source: Forest Gardening with Robert Hart
“If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.”
“If only the morbidly religious cared more about real atrocities, like war, poverty, and sports.”
“If only the nuns, in the name of virginity, knew that pregnant women had the same miraculous powers as them, they would not wish to follow the path of celibacy. It is only out of ignorance and disobedience to the holy scriptures.”
“If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.”
Source: Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.”
“If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.”
“If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.”
“If only the rain could wash away the pain; I would dance in storms, unrestrained.”
“If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.”
“If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.”
“If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.”
“If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.”
“If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.”
“If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.”
“If only the world could borrow the leaves of autumn which connect with people through their diversity of colours!”
“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.
---Daphne du Marier, Rebecca”
Source: The Memory Gardener
“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
“If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.”
“If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.”
“If only there was a way I could let you know
how much you mean to me, you’d never go
away so far that all I can do now, dear
is whisper a wish, that you were here.”
Source: Stolen Reflections
“If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality,if only...however sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.”
“If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?" Joseph Knect said to his Music Master "there is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend rather, you should long for perfection in yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived not taught”
Source: The Glass Bead Game
“If only there were cameras set up on the other side for the moment atheists open their eyes after they pass on and see that God isn't the 'Santa Claus for adults' of their perennial arguments. Even better, if a converted atheist came back to convert them all!”
“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?
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.
Socrates taught us: 'Know thyself!”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago
“If only there were more adequate men in the world… but alas, alas. Perhaps somewhere far away in another universe… on another planet… there were better men, beings of dignity and goodness. Or the angels in heaven – yes, I always imagined them as the ideal men, if there was any gender division at all among them. Perhaps they were simply asexual beings, pure in their existence, untouched by the vices of the flesh.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”
Source: Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust
“If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.”
“If only they could listen with their hearts & not their minds, maybe then they would understand that often times it's the emotions not spoken that are longing to be heard.”
“If only they could see the love in your eyes they would know the pain you feel each time you have to look away.”
“If only they could see the things we hide behind those shining eyes and blissful smiles.”
“If only they could stay young & beautifull like most of them desire, then we would probably stay young too”