I Quotes
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“It's only hubris if I fail.”
“It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.”
“It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.”
“It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.”
“It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.”
“It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.”
“It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.”
“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.”
Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken
“It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.”
“It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.”
“It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.”
“It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.”
Source: Pilgrimage
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”
Source: Every Day
“It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.”
“It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.”
“It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.”
“It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.”
“It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.”
“It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.”
“It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.”
Source: Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks
“It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.”
“It's only life. We all get through it.”
Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel
“It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.”
“It's only men that I strip and flip. My companies I hold long and close to my heart.”
“It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.”
“It's only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He's almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.”
“It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.”
Source: Marabou Stork Nightmares
“It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.”
“It's only pain, it will not hurt you.”
“It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.”
“It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.”
“It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.”
“It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.”
“It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.”
“It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.”
“It's Only Rock and Roll.”
“It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up.”
“It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard”
“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
Source: Three Comrades: A Novel
“It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
“It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever.”
Source: The Tea Rose
“It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.”
“It's only the giving that makes you what you are.”
“It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.”
“It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.”
“It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”