Top 100 Only It Quotes
#1. Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.
Jimmy Durante
#2. History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
Leo Tolstoy
#3. My love runs deep,
strong and pure.
If only it was your love,
instead of this disease.
I could die knowing,
there was no cure.
Melissa Mercer
#4. Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
Simon Sinek
#5. I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.
Ian Christe
#6. Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Adam Smith
#7. Earlier I had thought a lot about why it was so extremely unusual for a person to be able to live for an ideal. Now I saw that many people, all in fact, are capable of dying for an ideal. Only, it mustn't be a personal, freely chosen ideal, but one held in common and taken over from other people.
Hermann Hesse
#8. A faint is one breath away from nothing. Only it is far worse than actually being nothing because the only thing left of you is the memory of having once been a something.
Rebecca Taylor
#9. If only it were so easy to pick up the broken pieces of life, glue them back together, and cover them with paint like nothing had ever happened.
Patti Callahan Henry
#10. Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
#11. Expect the worst
And that's what
You'll get
Only it will be
Much worse.
J.P. Donleavy
#12. Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.
Susan Howatch
#13. I hope you have had spiritual experiences that have taught you that the only source of comfort when you are afflicted is the Word of God. Only it assures you of your salvation.
C.F.W. Walther
#14. Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived. Theologia Germanica
Aldous Huxley
#15. Not only it is annoying, it is distracting from life itself.
~on what TV is.
R.K. Cowles
#16. The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
Charles Baudelaire
#17. It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.
Todd Barry
#18. Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.
Yasmin Mogahed
#19. Money's just an idea, it has power. Only it's not real power. Just the promise of power. But that promise is enough so long as everyone keeps pretending it's real. Stop pretending and it all falls apart.
Steven Erikson
#20. Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.
Christian Lacroix
#21. If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Diogenes
#22. Proper work usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so
Charlie Brooker
#23. I love you," I say to him, only it comes out, "Hey."
"So damn much," he says back, only it comes out, "Dude."
He still won't meet my eyes.
Jandy Nelson
#24. A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!
Steve Hockensmith
#25. Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
Immanuel Kant
#26. [Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.
Agatha Christie
#28. The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
Barbra Streisand
#29. All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn't matter so you don't have to worry about it.
Max Gladstone
#31. Death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories.
H.P. Lovecraft
#32. Johanna, could you really hear him screaming?" "That was part of it," she says. "Like the jabber jays in the arena. Only it was real. And it didn't stop after an hour. Tick tock.
Suzanne Collins
#33. Heaven is simply going to be an intensification, amplification, magnification and extension of all the thrills and joys and pleasures of this life, the Heaven on Earth that we're now enjoying, only it will be even more Heavenly there, and forever, praise God!
David Berg
#34. It was the simplest thing to do, loving someone, only it was the hardest thing, too, because it hurt.
Elizabeth Brundage
#35. Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
D.H. Lawrence
#36. If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!
Paul Weller
#37. It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once only; it is contemporary with all times, but not in the way that a timeless myth would be.
Pope Benedict XVI
#38. Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
E. M. Forster
#39. Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.
Sebastian Faulks
#42. So many things
nay every real thing
is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.
C.S. Lewis
#43. Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn't just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
Maya Banks
#44. But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#45. Only, it's not an it. It's a her. A zombie. A woman. A zombie woman. She's older than Janine, closer to my age, maybe early thirties, missing a little bit of her face, but otherwise sort of pretty in a melancholy way.
Charles Yu
#46. Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience
Albert Camus
#47. If only it felt like an academic exercise when she kissed him, instead of a soul-drowning tsunami of want and need.
Alexia Adams
#48. The greenhouse effect I am knowing;
To protest right now I am going,
But oh my gee whiz,
I'm going that is,
If only it ever stops snowing.
Alan Cook
#49. Oh yeah it does, most definitely it has an ocean, only it's purple, and the sand is blue and the sky is hella green.
Jandy Nelson
#50. There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
G.K. Chesterton
#51. When asked why she had tried to kill herself, she said only, It was a mistake.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#52. Coaching is one thing and one thing only: It is creating an environment so the player has an opportunity to be successful That is your job as a coach. When you teach him to do that, get out of his way.
Chip Kelly
#53. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time.
Albert Camus
#54. A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.
Kay Granger
#55. There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.
John James Audubon
#56. All the time in the world may sound nice in theory, but in practice it can become a swift kick to the balls. CHAPTER 7 Harper's is the local convenience store around here, only it's nothing like the Wawas and 7-Elevens I frequented when I lived in the Philadelphia area.
Matthew Quick
#57. Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.
Suzanne Collins
#58. You can make it to AAA ball on talent only. It's difficult but it can be done. But to make it to the big leagues, you HAVE to be coachable. You have to stay coachable.
Dale Murphy
#59. I know part of my sorrow is just disguised self-pity, I needed that exchange and I worry how I'll cope without it and whether I can replace it - if only it were as easy as buying a new dog.
William Boyd
#60. It would be a better land if only it could be ruled sensibly.
Seth Dickinson
#61. And when I don't feel it, it's pointless.
Think about getting up it's pointless.
Think about eating it's pointless.
Think about dressing it's pointless.
Think about speaking it's pointless.
Think about dying only it's totally
fucking pointless.
Sarah Kane
#62. I feel like I got hit by a bus." "You kind of did," I said, "only it was an angry orc with the strength and attitude of a silverback gorilla.
Elle Casey
#63. Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
Freya Stark
#64. Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.
John Fowles
#65. Beautiful people blossomed forth from out of the polyglot, people who really had a lot to them, only it had been smothered by all the eternal social games that had been set up. Suddenly they found each other.
Tom Wolfe
#66. To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
Jane Harrison
#67. I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart.
Laurie McBain
#68. Only when the brain has cleansed itself of its conditioning, greed, envy, ambition, then only it can comprehend that which is complete. Love is this completeness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#69. To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me
the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.
Charlotte Bronte
#70. For I suspect the next world will more plainly be a going on with this than most people think - only it will be much better for some, and much worse for others, as the Lord has taught us in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.
George MacDonald
#71. He was no longer strictly a man, if he had ever been one. He was like an onion, slowly peeling away one layer at a time, only it was the trappings of humanity that seemed to be peeling away: organized reflection, memory, possibly even free will ... if there ever had been such a thing.
Stephen King
#72. I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.
Gypsy Rose Lee
#73. Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.
Mason Cooley
#74. Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a duty. It is not merely a means of livelihood; it is the precious treasure of the noble tradition of giving, bestowing.
Narendra Modi
#75. Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
B.R. Ambedkar
#76. The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.
Bob Thaves
#77. Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#78. Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
Anthony Burgess
#79. When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.
Colin Firth
#80. Skepticism ... is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
Thomas Carlyle
#81. Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.
Kate Morton
#82. It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.
Jim Bakker
#83. Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
Charles Lamb
#84. nice day, i said. and i put one of the raspberries in my mouth. is it? i looked up at the sky. the sun is there, i said, only it's hid by a cloud. you ever see the bad in life? he asked. i'll have time to think about that, i said, when i'm dead.
Nell Leyshon
#85. If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so ... there wouldn't be any point to be by your side ... - kakeru manabe
Natsuki Takaya
#86. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world.
Paulo Coelho
#87. The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.
John Brunner
#88. If only it weren't for the people, the goddamned people," said Finnerty, "always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, earth would be an engineer's paradise.
Kurt Vonnegut
#89. Whether or not you get what you're looknig for depends entirely on one things and one thing only. It depends on your willingness to do something different.
Wyatt Webb
#90. But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my constant companion. I could depend on it, and only it.
Jessica Knoll
#91. Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.
John Frederick Boyes
#92. Searching is just like finding, only it comes first and is spelled differently.
The Searcher
#93. Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
LaToya Jackson
#94. If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.
Mike Hawkins
#95. Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.
Perry Brass
#96. This is why I hate things like love, not only it will turn me into a fool, it would also turn me into a complete failure.
Yoshiki Nakamura
#97. If only it were that easy. You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I'd still come back to you.
Richelle Mead
#98. All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'
Max Weber
#99. If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it.
Kendare Blake
#100. I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that the only thing coffee really has going for it is that it will keep you awake.
Lawrence Block
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