Only So Much Quotes

#1. Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only "they" could have just let me stay that way. - Author: C. JoyBell C.

#2. Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to. - Author: Barbara Pym

#3. There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do. - Author: Sheri Reynolds

#4. The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever. - Author: George Augustus Henry Sala

#5. ...he was a sensitive person underneath it all. Yes he could believe that, SLider thought. Only a man obsessed with hie own emotions could spread so much devastation around him. - Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

#6. Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that. - Author: Jeff Bridges

#7. The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints. - Author: Mark Wahlberg

#8. The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables. - Author: Charles Lamb

#9. Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? - Author: Cornelia Funke

#10. Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction. No more. Much more. Is this not God's prescription for us? Just take a look around. - Author: John Eldredge

#11. Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth. - Author: Douglas Adams

#12. If I were to taste your mouth now, I couldn't answer for the consequences. So I can only adore this beautiful neck. I know that in a few seconds I will have to pull away, before the temptation becomes too much. It's too much already. You have no idea how much I want you. - Author: Sylvain Reynard

#13. I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful. - Author: Jessamyn West

#14. I miss you so much! And while this hole in my heart will never be filled again, I find comfort knowing that you are nestled within the loving embrace of God ... and that I was blessed to know you ... even if only for a little while. - Author: Steve Maraboli

#15. I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks. - Author: Charlize Theron

#16. This world is filled with things that will never make sense. Trying to make so much sense of them will only result in one thing: Spending the rest of your life trying to remember what you were like before any of it mattered. - Author: Matthew Good

#17. I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey"
"So damn much," he says back, it only comes out, "Dude - Author: Jandy Nelson

#18. We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so. - Author: Andrew W.K.

#19. Here is the story of how I died. I wish it were a glamorous story; sadly, there was little glamour in my death. The end for everyone is much the same, sad, lonely, and cold. Only, most people don't wake up again, I did. And I was hungry, so bloody hungry. - Author: L.A. Kennedy

#20. What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#21. So much for perfect love. Because you can blink your eyes and it can vanish, without explanation, leaving you with only your memories and your tears. - Author: Sarah Jio

#22. Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection. - Author: William Boyd

#23. I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos. - Author: Darynda Jones

#24. Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy. - Author: Rabindranath Tagore

#25. Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm ... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore. - Author: Freeman Dyson

#26. I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused. - Author: Scott Bakula

#27. I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen. - Author: Saint Teresa Of Avila

#28. Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer. - Author: Dolly Parton

#29. The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between. - Author: J.W. Lord

#30. I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much. - Author: Godfrey

#31. Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from. - Author: Mel Gibson

#32. There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken. - Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

#33. Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves. - Author: Alain De Botton

#34. T's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You learn more from them than you do your victories. They can only make you a better fighter and a better man. - Author: Diego Sanchez

#35. He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most. - Author: E. M. Forster

#36. Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. - Author: Bertrand Russell

#37. You can only hurt a person so much and then he doesn't feel the pain anymore. A hard man can take a kicking and not whine about it. - Author: John Fenton

#38. I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive. - Author: Ken Livingstone

#39. She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain. - Author: Hunter S. Thompson

#40. There are definitely some hos on this campus," she began. "And plenty more in this city. And the fact that you're so different from those types only makes it that much more likely that you'll fetch a nice figure on eBay for the popping of your cherry," she joked suggestively. - Author: Zack Love

#41. I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start. - Author: Carol Anshaw

#42. As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. - Author: Emily Greene Balch

#43. I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning. - Author: Kai Ryssdal

#44. This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future. - Author: Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#45. People only have so much attention. - Author: Demetri Martin

#46. Some people are so special, so beautiful and have so much to offer this world. Sad thing is they just don't see it. They need positive reinforcement. Tell them, 'If you could see only half of what I see in you, then one day you'd realize how truly amazing you really are. - Author: Marc Mero

#47. You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind. - Author: Roone Arledge

#48. Did you know ... you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight ... and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you. - Author: Alexandra Bracken

#49. There's so much art and it's gotten so flashy. In the global marketplace, having art that's shiny and has neon lights is almost what you need for anyone to notice it in an art fair situation - and art fairs seem to be more and more the only thing there is. - Author: Jim Shaw

#50. I know you're a great fencer, but I've been told your wit is even sharper than your sword. So much so in fact, that you only use your sword upon your friends, as your wit is far too deadly. - Author: Joe Abercrombie

#51. It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up. - Author: Karl Pilkington

#52. In the hearts of children, there's so much trust and love. If only we could all cling throughout our lives to the wonder and innocence that are always present in a child. Our - Author: Linda Thompson

#53. I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now ... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them. - Author: DJ Qualls

#54. You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift ... I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed. - Author: Alison Croggon

#55. Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else! - Author: Gertrude Atherton

#56. She continue kissing me with that ferocity, so much so that her lips lightly scraped my teeth. It was only a few drops, but as the sweet metallic taste of her blood touched my tongue, a blinding ecstasy flooded my body. - Author: Richelle Mead

#57. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small? - Author: Langston Hughes

#58. I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills. - Author: Christina Hendricks

#59. Surrender is not giving up, far from it. Surrender takes an enormous amount of courage. Often we are only capable of doing so when the pain of trying to control the outcome becomes too much to bear. - Author: Bronnie Ware

#60. I hate that word, CAN'T. I wish it had never been dreamed
up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN'T could be
eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from
the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air. - Author: Tiffanie DeBartolo

#61. Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#62. And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them. - Author: Vincent Van Gogh

#63. I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it. - Author: Anthea Turner

#64. I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that. - Author: Blanka Vlasic

#65. I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now
only that place where the books are kept. - Author: John Steinbeck

#66. The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and are only cinders at the borders of the fire. I am saying this again because I want it to be true. - Author: Sebastian Barry

#67. Okay, how's this? I've been to Heaven and Hell. I've seen the whole world, but the only thing that makes me want to live is this: being inside you. I love you so much. You're all I see. - Author: Debra Anastasia

#68. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon. - Author: H.G.Wells

#69. For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath. - Author: Steven J. Lawson

#70. There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt. - Author: Sue Grafton

#71. I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it. - Author: Edwidge Danticat

#72. So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs
only a price. - Author: F. Sionil Jose

#73. You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note. - Author: Stella Benson

#74. There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them. - Author: Tobin Bell

#75. It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left. - Author: Kay Harding

#76. You're learning. So why don't we stop pretending? It's so much easier when you give up all those illusions and realize that the only justice you'll get in this life is the justice you dish out. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, mate. You need to sharpen your teeth. Don't get angry. Get even. - Author: Barry Jonsberg

#77. The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different. - Author: Tiger Woods

#78. Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?"
He gave me his trademark bland stare. "I assure you, mistress, the only allure your bare flesh has for me is to remind me how easy it will be to slice open."
I laughed. If not for the fact he was actually serious, he'd be so much fun. - Author: Richelle Mead

#79. But for those who need a system, Chuang Tzu offers the reminder that the fish trap is only needed to catch the fish; once the fish is caught the fish trap is no longer needed so much the better if the fish can be caught without the trap. - Author: Ray Grigg

#80. The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism. - Author: Jack McDevitt

#81. It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though
and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger
he was angry only because his position was so weak. - Author: Lev Grossman

#82. A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else. - Author: Jack Welch

#83. In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet! - Author: Joseph Smith Jr.

#84. George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' - Author: Henry Rollins

#85. I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it. - Author: Bipasha Basu

#86. You will excuse my being so much overpowered. If I find him conversible, I shall be glad of his acquaintance; but if he is only a chattering coxcomb, he will not occupy much of my time or thoughts. - Author: Jane Austen

#87. Most of the time I'm thinking of you
All of the time I love you
Remembering the good times and the bad
So much as
Happened and
Maybe I'm loving too fast
All I know is I ...
Love you. And want to
Live with you
Only you
Will you be my wife? - Author: Monica Murphy

#88. We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water. - Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

#89. True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worth worrying about so much. - Author: Mikhail Lermontov

#90. I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness. - Author: Audre Lorde

#91. No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. - Author: Ayn Rand

#92. We spend so much time making up for things we failed to say, she mused. If only, she began
for the thousandth time, the images of those days beginning to flash behind her eyes like a slide
show she was powerless to stop - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#93. I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it. - Author: Spike Jonze

#94. Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment. - Author: Christopher Lasch

#95. Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. - Author: Sarah Kay

#96. So much happiness can only make me sad. - Author: David Levithan

#97. I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day. - Author: James Altucher

#98. Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. - Author: George Orwell

#99. Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#100. The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest. - Author: Robin Sharma