Top 100 Are Only Quotes
#1. Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
George Santayana
#2. Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams ...
James Salter
#4. There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
Bernard Baruch
#5. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
William James
#6. There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#7. I said to myself, 'Malala, be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.
Malala Yousafzai
#8. Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.
Peter Drucker
#9. There are no rogue ships; there are only rogue shipowners.
Barista Uno
#10. There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
Chris Heimerdinger
#11. If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
Bodhidharma
#12. There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.
Margery Allingham
#13. I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
Robert Morgan
#14. Prof. Gerd Gleixner said " Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks .
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. You are
never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.
Miguel Ruiz
#16. As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year ... One is fear. The other is desire.
Deborah Harkness
#17. It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are together, no matter how much you love your family, your thoughts are only of your lover, of climbing.
Andy Kirkpatrick
#18. The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
Jeffrey Kluger
#19. I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models.
David Bellamy
#20. Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
Rick Perlstein
#21. Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.
Marlene Dumas
#22. There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Blaise Pascal
#23. When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.
John Newton
#24. There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
James Purefoy
#25. Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
Ovid
#26. There are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.
Kathleen Winsor
#27. You are not your emotions and they are not who you are, only how you feel at the moment.
Toni Sorenson
#28. There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are in your own home and they are only visitors.
C.S. Lewis
#29. But the true voyagers are only those who leave
Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,
They never turn aside from their fatality
And without knowing why they always say: Let's go!
Charles Baudelaire
#30. Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny ... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!
Paula White
#31. If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
Evelyn Underhill
#32. I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 Senators there and they'll all die because they won't have the 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
Barney Frank
#33. There are only two people in your life, when you think of them, they will either give you a negative feeling, or a warm feeling, when you think of them.
Robert Black
#34. We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
B.F. Skinner
#35. In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Stephen Covey
#36. Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
Arthur Cayley
#37. Happiness without power, wages without work, a home without frontiers, religion without myth. These characteristics are hated by the rulers because the ruled secretly long to possess them. The rulers are only safe as long as the people they rule turn their longed-for goals into hated forms of evil.
Theodor W. Adorno
#38. If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
Swami Vivekananda
#39. Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.
Max Frisch
#40. My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up.
- Charley Davidson
Darynda Jones
#42. Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#44. The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
Alan Watts
#46. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
Jim Butcher
#47. I've always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you've done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it's like, 'Yeah, next?'
Joe Perry
#48. If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.
Robin S. Sharma
#49. Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.
Ken Wilber
#50. Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.
Joseph Batten
#51. While seeing or hearing, touching or smelling; eating, moving about, or sleeping; breathing 9 or speaking, letting go or holding on, even opening or closing the eyes, they understand that these are only the movements of the senses among sense objects. 10
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#52. Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.
Frederick Lenz
#53. There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball. These are the 3 most beautiful things this culture's ever created.
Gerald Early
#54. There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.
Thomas Sowell
#55. When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.
John Rzeznik
#56. They tried to pierce your heart with a Morgul-knife which remains in the wound. If they had succeeded, you would have become like they are, only weaker and under their command. You would have became a wraith under the dominion of the Dark Lord.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#57. If you obey the majority of those on earth, they will lead you astray from God's way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing.
Anonymous
#58. Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons ... don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!
Jorge Cruise
#59. In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
Wilhelm Dilthey
#60. Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Carl Jung
#61. Suit yourself, but don't pretend you would have done any better. There are only so many options a man has when he's about to lose everything.
J. Keller Ford
#62. When a friendship crumbles, there are only really two things that can bring it back: a shitload of time, or a sincere apology.
Dahlia Adler
#63. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. And it means that sometimes thing are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules.
Mark Haddon
#65. The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Samuel Johnson
#66. Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
Angela Davis
#67. Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.
Naomie Harris
#68. There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Penny Reid
#69. Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.
Katie Price
#71. There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.
Sharon Gless
#72. Don't depend on the thoughts; "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit.
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.
Lolo Jones
#74. I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
Twyla Tharp
#76. Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.
Cormac McCarthy
#77. Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.
Marlene Caroselli
#78. I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.
Phil Keoghan
#79. And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them.
Rick Elice
#80. Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.
James A. Garfield
#81. My paintings are only the ashes of my art
Yves Klein
#82. Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Kin Hubbard
#83. Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#84. There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.
Alfred Hershey
#86. I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!
Caitlin Moran
#87. Between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.
Saul Bellow
#88. You are only willing to suffer the cost of your dream when you understand the value of your dream.
Deborah Brodie
#89. We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.
Azim Premji
#90. Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.
Leo Tolstoy
#91. Pure Soul and circumstances; there are only these two; but the disturbance of egoism does not allow it to be at peace.
Dada Bhagwan
#92. Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.
Faina Ranevskaya
#93. Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying.
Carroll Bryant
#94. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
Marianne Williamson
#96. As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
#97. If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.
Sunday Adelaja
#98. TO BE HAPPY, BE VIRTUOUS. THERE ARE ONLY TWO REASONS TO EVER DO ANYTHING; TO BE HAPPY, AND TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE BE HAPPY. ALL VIRTUE LIES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THAT, IN WORKING FOR OTHERS, IN PROTECTING THE WEAK FROM THE STRONG.
Daniel Keys Moran
#99. Our differences are only skin deep, but our sames go down to the bone.
J.D. Robb
