I Quotes
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“It was only later that I wondered about it and tried to look back. But by then I could only see that there was once a time when we had walked apart; and then a time when we walked together.”
Source: Fingersmith
“It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.”
“It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.”
“It was only love,
It only drove me to my knees.
Rendering me hopeless
Like an incurable disease.”
“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.”
“It was only much later that I understood what had happened to them more thoroughly; and how the demoralising complications and compromises in their young lives ravaged their relationship. When they first left home, they do so together; they must have taken care of each other. Maybe they had an idea, halfway formed, that was going to make everything okay again; but it died, and now they had to carry it around and maybe it would be that way forever.”
Source: The Rider on the Bridge
“It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my childhood dreams had finally found the place where they could materialize. I had arrived where I was always meant to be. I did not know how it could be practically achieved, but I was certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was here that I wanted to live.”
“It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
Source: White Oleander
“It was only one kiss. It wasn’t a deep kiss, a French kiss, the kind of kiss that redefines a teen life. It was pepperoni, snowflakes, spit, and rodeo dust. Crazy, like dancing and soaring and walking to a new home.
Sweeter because it didn’t taste like good-bye.”
Source: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
“It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?”
“It was only possible because it was attained. An Idea isn't feasible until it becomes reality”
“It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.”
Source: City of Glass
“It was only sifting through depths that deep that I was able to uncover my soul. Maybe it was not really about this race; it was about finding those few thoughts that transcended the darkness, the ones that would only be conjured up within my head during times of need. Maybe it was finding a spiritual level of flow while running, floating down the trail like I’ve never experienced before, finding myself running within ultra.”
Source: Training For Ultra: Ultra Running Stories From the Middle of the Pack
“It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.”
Source: Women
“It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“It was only then that Major John James realized that he was quite alone—whereupon he pulled the oldest trick in the book. Spurring Thunder on, he shouted, “Come on, boys! Come on! Here they are! Here they are!”28 The now thoroughly demoralized Tories leaped onto their horses and fled again, their leader joining them.”
Source: The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
“It was only then, when the man lay sleeping beside her, that Evelyn took in the whole new astonishment of her situation. She shifted very slightly away from him in her bed so that no part of her body was touching his, aware of the smell of his skin of his naked back so close beside her, so masculine and alien, an affront in a new language she couldn't read.”
Source: The Party
“It was only through countless experiences traveling the world, and later through my studies in spiritual psychology, that I was able to see in myself the very archetypes that I now see so clearly in others. I was able to trace the roots of my fears as they expressed themselves in my own Victim Imposter and release them.”
“It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.”
“It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants
of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the
realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and
abstruse books of philosophy.”
“It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...”
“It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone. If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the dream of never dying or of traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits, to declare that this dream was not a feverish trick of the mind but was an actuality at least as real as that other, thinner, more unhappy illusion we call normal life. After all, the intimations of endless love were the same now as they were thousands of years before, while normal life had changed a thousand times and in a thousand different ways. Which then, was more real?”
Source: Endless Love
“It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question.”
“It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.”
“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.”
“It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'”
“It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.”
“It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The art program was directed by a wonderful and a very important person in my life - Charlotte Ranger, who was referred to as Mrs. Ranger. She had been teaching in the school for many years.”
“It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.”
“It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.”
“It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.”
“It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I thought, Well, maybe I'm just going to try doing this myself before somebody else comes in and handles it. For a long time my acting was just a marriage of convenience between me and these characters that I was writing.”
“It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.”
“It was only when I started to reconnect with my inner child four years into recovery (I was over four years clean and sober off drugs and alcohol) and started to attend a love addiction support group that I was able to trust again and have faith that there are just as many honest and trustworthy women as there are women who are not interested in monogamy.
However, it was after ten years of continuous recovery that I started to really dig deep into my childhood grief work and was finally able to reclaim my inner child. I started to take risks again. On a practical level, you can’t get very far in this world if you resent and distrust the opposite sex and, sadly, many men and women suffer in this area. Rather than celebrating the opposite sex, they fear them. Empathy and self-compassion has helped me in this area too.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“It was only when I stopped working with electricity that I realized that electromagnetic exposures had been routinely triggering my mating cycle.”
“It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought you, at the age of 12 or 13, could have a better understanding of Stanislavski. Why did you think that you didn't need to go to school?" It was quite funny. But, I was certainly inspired.”
“It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.”
“It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.”
Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
“It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.”
Source: Anybody Out There
“It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically. "Oh my God, did you see her face?" Becca asked between guffaws. "'There's something in my hair!'" "That was fantastic, Crazytop," Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "Best master plan yet.”
Source: How to be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.!
“It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.”
Source: Eurydice in the Underworld
“It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.”
Source: Train Dreams
“It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.”
“It was ordained.
Just as the fates deal out
the plague with a tarot card.
Just as the Supreme Being drills
holes in our skulls to let
the Boston Symphony through.”
Source: Transformations
“It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.”
Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927
“It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.”
“It was otherwise so pleasurable to walk around with an innocent secret.”
Source: The Goodbye Song