Top 100 Quotes About If Only
#1. Usually it was like spillage- cold and heavy, slippery and gray- but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes.
Markus Zusak
#2. There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.
Hermann Hesse
#3. If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.
Karen Hancock
#4. But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
Norton Juster
#5. If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit!
Michel De Montaigne
#6. If only I had wings, I would not hesitate to fly away from my mistakes.
Delano Johnson
#7. If only the president hadn't tried to dodge, he would have been all right. As it was, the toe of her jackboot caught him in the groin with perfect unplanned accuracy. His mouth made a soundless "O" and he went down behind the rostrum. Cordelia,
Lois McMaster Bujold
#9. If only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts.
Orson Scott Card
#10. There's a piece of lead where my heart should beat
Doctor said too dangerous to take out
You'd better just leave it be
Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be
Now, if only I could get through airport security
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Gayle Forman
#11. If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
Emilio Estevez
#12. Let's all keep quiet, there are times when words serve no purpose, if only I, too, could weep, say everything with tears, not have to speak in order to be understood.
Jose Saramago
#13. let us not abandon all hope before we have set our hands to the task. Let us not lay down our rod and staff if we do not have the desired success at once. What is impossible for men remains possible for God. Eventually God's hour must come, if only we wait for it.
Philip Jacob Spener
#14. God has prepared our victory for us, if only we will praise Him in all circumstances
Sunday Adelaja
#15. Nature has its own music, own song, if only we have time to listen and a heart to understand.
Debasish Mridha
#16. If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
Virgil
#17. If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
Kari Matchett
#19. He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
Stephen King
#20. In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.
Gary Shteyngart
#21. He held on. Weakly, struggling, in agony, he held on, drawing upon the great reservoirs of love and bravery I knew he possessed. He held on for his little girl. For his father. And I liked to think that maybe, if only a little, he held on because I refused to let him go.
Emma Scott
#22. Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy is so freely used to-day, so atomic energy may bring interplantary travel within easy reach to-morrow.
P. E. Cleator
#23. We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.
Stephen Jay Gould
#24. Dr. Larch pointed out that Melony had taken Jane Eyre with her; he accepted this as a hopeful sign - wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she'll keep reading it, and reading it, Larch thought.
John Irving
#25. To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.
Lydia Davis
#26. Eighty-two years later, the sound of her crying still haunts me. If only I had paid closer attention to why she was crying instead of simply trying to quiet her. If only I had paid closer attention.
Christina Baker Kline
#27. Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
Diana Gabaldon
#28. You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life.
Ransom Riggs
#29. The Russian governors are terrified of ideas. If only they knew what our governors know - that in a massive egalitarian society no idea which runs counter to the prevailing superstitions can successfully penetrate the official carapace.
Gore Vidal
#30. My generation is the most fatherless and insecure generation that's ever lived, and we are willing to sacrifice everything if we just can be told we are loved.
If only we knew just how loved we really are.
Jefferson Bethke
#31. If only this mist would clear, it would be a lovely day," she said faintly.
"And if only the clouds would thicken up it would be a miserable day," Mr. Allen contributed from behind the paper. "It is what it is.
Val McDermid
#32. Living life is so simple if only you accept yourself and learn to forgive your mistakes and others.
Wordfaith3
#33. No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.
Mark Strand
#34. My name is Samhain Corvus LaCroix. I am a necromancer.
Now, if only I could say that with a straight face.
Lish McBride
#35. If only we had the ability to live life as though it were so new or so close to the end that all we could do is give and show and become love. It seems that beginnings and endings teach us about this kind of love. It is in between that we tend to forget.
Michael Spehn
#36. What if only humans are real, and information is not?
Jaron Lanier
#37. She wondered what he'd make of the murder. "Well, well," he would say, "veddy bad. But would it be better if we did not know about it? No. Certainly not. And if we know, must we not do something about it? Certainly. If only to pray.
Mary Anne Kelly
#38. If only gossip weren't so titillating. Sweeney tried to control an avid desire to know more, to dig for all the dirty details.
The temptation was great. Dirt was like fat; it made life more delicious.
Linda Howard
#39. Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
Wislawa Szymborska
#40. If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.
D.H. Lawrence
#41. A fine Dragon Rider you are, afraid of talking to a large group! If only Galbatorix knew, he could have you at his mercy if he but asked you to make a speech to his troops. Ha! It
Christopher Paolini
#42. If only I were a magician who could make things possible. I'd give objects the gift of defiance: banisters, gramaphones, guns, the napes of necks, braided hair.
Sasa Stanisic
#43. A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed, a part of me but departed from me, I lost it alive, living but separate; and if it does not leave me, it is incomplete, insufficient, and half-dead that I keep it.
Helene Cixous
#44. Do you ever feel that everything would be okay, if only you had an Irish accent?
Graham Parke
#45. Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#46. If only I could understand
The reason for my crying
If only I could stop this fear
Of dreaming that I'm dying.
Jennifer Lynch
#47. One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.
Charlotte Rampling
#48. Maryse sighed.Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?
Cassandra Clare
#49. I know what I want, I have a goal, I have opinions, a religion and love. If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.
Anne Frank
#50. In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.
John Burroughs
#51. I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.
Dervla Murphy
#52. If only he'd taken one look at her and seen that they were soul mates, swept her off her feet and taken her to Las Vegas to be married in the same little chapel where Britney Spears had been. She laughed to herself. It would probably have lasted just as long, once her mother found out.
Jettie Necole
#53. I had begun my time of waiting. I was living my life, and yet I seemed somehow to be outside of it, as if only when the war was over and Virgil came home would I be able to come back into my life and live again inside it.
Wendell Berry
#54. If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.
Ralph Ellison
#55. My other hand moves up to the ruby heart. Closing my fingers around it, I shut my es and return to Neverland. Even if only in a dream
Anna Katmore
#56. Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them ... if only to reach but a few.
James D. Maxon
#57. Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Lewis Carroll
#58. 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
#59. The great crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens in the hearts of the people. The evangelist sows the seed, and much inevitably falls upon stony ground and bears no fruit. But if only a few seeds flourish, the results are manifold.
Billy Graham
#60. All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.
Socrates
#61. I live like a woman and I love like a man.
If only,you can deal with it.
Himmilicious
#62. If only those old walls could talk ... how boring they would be.
Robert Benchley
#63. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.
Ayn Rand
#64. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker
#65. Thus proving that books can teach you much, if only to give you a good name for a devilish, smart goat.
Terry Pratchett
#66. We are deluded when we think that we do not have a direct line to heaven, that heaven doesn't stand ready to help us. Oh! If only you knew the angels that walk beside you, that support and protect you on the journey you've chosen to walk.
Toni Sorenson
#67. If only you were willing to betray a trust, why, the most amazing range of possible actions opened up to you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#68. If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive.
"I'm thirty-five," she said at last.
Garth Nix
#69. Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.
Jeffrey Kluger
#70. Sometimes, you must play by the rules. If only so one can break them more effectively.
Maya Rodale
#71. If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Diogenes
#72. Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason, if only for a moment, lost its claim on you.
Christian Wiman
#73. Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
Anita Diament
#74. On one hand, it's nice on the other side. Secrets don't exist. There's nothing to ignore, and no destiny. On the other hand, the same thing is possible in life, if only we'd start paying attention to the right stuff.
A.S. King
#75. How many times in your life are you allowed to say, "If only ... ?"
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#76. I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.
Margot Asquith
#77. If only you'd stop thinking there's such a thing as perfect, then you'd feel a lot better about yourself.
A.S. King
#78. If only my genitals didn't float
When I relaxed in the bath
And we both looked down and we both agreed
It's stupid to be a man
Leonard Cohen
#79. If only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place
Alina Radoi
#80. Happy birthday, my son. If only I could've helped you.
Bryan Konietzko
#81. If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.
Ludiah
#82. There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.
Winston Churchill
#83. No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do
Jerome K. Jerome
#84. I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
Gene Perret
#85. So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
(Initiation)
Sylvia Plath
#86. The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
Marianne Williamson
#87. Anarchists live in fear and long for death, because they despair of seeing in others the very virtues they lack in themselves. In this manner, they take pleasure in sowing destruction, if only to match their inner landscape of ruin.
Steven Erikson
#88. If only you could pack up everything you love, and everyone who'd ever been your friend.
Jerry Jeff Walker
#89. If only i had known that the moment you think everything has ended, something new is beginning.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#90. Maybe it's the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.
Cristina Henriquez
#91. If only he really knew how messy my head was sometimes. That attack last night? Just the tip of a Titanic-sized fuckedup iceberg.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#92. To look at something which is "empty" is still to be looking, still to be seeing something - if only the ghosts of one's own expectations.
Susan Sontag
#93. If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?
Richard Baxter
#94. If only Nixon could go to China, only Obama can end the self-memorialization obsession that is presidential libraries - by not building such a shrine.
Anthony Clark
#95. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.
Lisa See
#96. If only life were a book, and I could choose precisely what part I played.
Jessica Lawson
#97. If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;
Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.
Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly.
Fly high, my baby bird,
My angel, my only
Louis Sachar
#98. The forest is a quiet place if only the best birds sing.
Kay Johnson
#99. There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness - (if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).
Roman Payne
#100. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross.
G.K. Chesterton
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