I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If only they knew the ‘ghost’ they were discussing was curled up on Caiden’s living room rug at that very moment, dozing away like an enormous kitten.”
Source: Firestorm
“If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by”
Source: Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
“If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.”
“If only those old walls could talk...how boring they would be.”
Source: The Treasurer's Report: And Other Aspects of Community Singing
“If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!”
“If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said”
“If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.”
“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“If only we can break what we think is inevitable, what past generations have gone through, if only we can fight for who we are”
“If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.”
“If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.”
“If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid of most of the diseases.”
“If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.”
“If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.”
“If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!”
“If only we could catch even the barest glimpse of our true capacity we would be stunned at the potential that lay there. Then the first monumental question would become, are we daring enough to unearth it; with the second being, are we brave enough to unleash it?”
“If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?”
Source: The Cranes Dance
“If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.”
Source: Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal
“If only we could keep the wars between sperm and stop the ones between people, we would have peace through pleasure.”
“If only we could know our parents when we are children.”
Source: The Beauty of Living Twice
“If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!”
“If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.”
“If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.”
“If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.”
“If only we could predict the future, foolishness wouldn't have existed in the first place. It would become a choice rather than a necessity.”
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
“If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.”
“If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!”
“If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.”
“If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.”
Source: Destination zero: poems, 1970-1995
“If only we had the certainty in our strength that we do in our weaknesses and capacity for failure - oh how wonderful life would be”
“If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.”
“If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that?”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts”
“If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.”
“If only we the genuine humans had the real guts, and sense of real responsibility to act as the holy warriors on our own original beliefs and principles, then we wouldn’t see any trace of terrorism in the world whatsoever, religious or otherwise.”
Source: Let The Poor Be Your God
“If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...
“If only we wait on God's timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God.”
“If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.”
Source: Healology
“If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“If only we would learn every day of our lives to overcome those things in our character which are negative, to let go and let God take them over, we would all know what it was to experience harmonious living.”
“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
“If only wealth was measured on how much we give, instead of on how much we have, there would have been far fewer rich people on earth. The world delights more in having than in giving.”
“If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.”
“If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.”
“If only you become free, then you, my dear sister or brother, will give a truly liberated family environment to your child, and that child will give the same free environment to his or her child - and it will go on, and eventually make the world filled with enough conscientious free original human souls to outweigh all the negativity of the remaining tiny portion of second-hand humans - the real lesser humans.”
“If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing!”