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only Quotes A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. ... A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore... A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him... A cat does not want all the world to love her - only those she has chosen to love.... A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but... A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but... A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in... A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters... A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people. ... A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ... A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ... A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees... A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle... A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. ... A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. ... A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the... A free lunch is only found in mousetraps. ... A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but awhile he knows something. ... A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime... A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ... A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality... A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only... A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.... A little Government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.... A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the... A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame... A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it... A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ... A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote. ... A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who... A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts... A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. ... A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be... A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ... A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy; so he has only to copy to... Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ... Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. ... Activity is the only road to knowledge. ... Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand. ... Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision... Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still. ... Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use... Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. ... All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind,... All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ... All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ... All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these... All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination. ... All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only... All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble... All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble... All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is... All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now. ... All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going... America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.... America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual... Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans... An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end... An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ... An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...... And the wind shall say: Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand... Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ... Anger is only one letter short of danger. ... Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a... Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. ... Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. ... Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I... Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with... Appear to know only this, - never to fail nor fall. ... Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.... Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure... As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed... As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed... As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only... As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked... As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have... As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands.... As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the... As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. ... Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ... At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile... Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it... Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. ... Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ... Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought... Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent... Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment,... Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ... Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ... Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes... Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man... Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the... Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the... Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is... Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ... But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good... But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a... But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. ... But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ... But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each... By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a... Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that... Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to... Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own... Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be... Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only... Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. ... Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. ... Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is... Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be... Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the... Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them. ... Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ... Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ... Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them... Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ... Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no... Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the... Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power... Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes... Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is... Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do... Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. ... Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ... Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ... Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory,... Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ... Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also... Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now... Do you think the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the... Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening. ... Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will... Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. ... Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in... Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only... Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for... Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter... Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a... Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ... Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving... Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. ... Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such... Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and... Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that... Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ... Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is... Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You... Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ... Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us... Everything comes if a man will only wait. ... Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ... Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it's the only thing. ... Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights... Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a... Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! ... Experience teaches only the teachable. ... Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ... Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of... Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not... Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you. ... Feeding the starving poor only increases their number. ... Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is... Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ... Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. ... First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ... For aesthetics is the mother of ethics…. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading... For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ... For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can... For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We... For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice. ... For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it... Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for... Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat,... Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ... Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our... Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions;... Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the... Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone, which is what every person... Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. ... Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. ... Friendship is the only concrete that can hold the world together! ... From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some... Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no... Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you... Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and... God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them. ... Goodness is the only investment which never fails. ... Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. ... Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ... Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. ... Growth is the only evidence of life. ... Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest... Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking... Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two... Have a variety of interests ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People... Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness... He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop. ... He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. ... He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? ... Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the... His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his... History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world.... History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream;... Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are... Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. ... Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ... Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ... Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because... Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. ... I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of... I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by. ... I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.... I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something;... I am only one, but still I am one I cannot do everything but still I can do something... I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.... I am only one,But still I am one.I cannot do everything,But still I can do something;And because I cannot... I am responsible only to God and history. ... I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go... I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but... I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ... I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more... I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. ... I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many... I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ... I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given... I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly! I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before... I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been... I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to... I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from... I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ... I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you... I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere... I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that... I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its... I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take... I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only... I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.... I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my... I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead - make my day. ... I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.... I know of only one duty, and that is to love. ... I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at... I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that... I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money. ... I love youNot only for what you areBut for what I amWhen I am with you. ... I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude... I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ... I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it... I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached... I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ... I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ... I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ... I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. ... I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ... I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have... I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study... I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along... I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. ... I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't... I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But... Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner... Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner... If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self only,... If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. ... If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my... If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses... If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he... If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of... If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man... If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little... If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ... If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we... If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot... If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population... If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. ... If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ... If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase... If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say,... If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm. ... If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.... If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right... If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at... If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly... If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will... If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps... If you only care enough for a result you will almost certainly attain it. ... If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and... If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you... If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you... I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in... I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. ... I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as... I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just... I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only... I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a... I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him. ... I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. ... What do you want - an adorable... I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.... Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. ... In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize... In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.... In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass... In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can... In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other... In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity... In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. ... In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom... In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.... In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended... In youth the human body drew me