Of Only Quotes

#1. Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.

Pope Francis

#2. I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

Al Michaels

#3. No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.

John Steinbeck

#5. I'm the soul of only teasing you about things when nobody else is around to hear me.

Courtney Milan

#6. Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

Edward Abbey

#7. When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.

Jerome A. Miller

#8. Living for the satisfaction of only one part of my body (my mouth) [is] unholy.

Lisa Morrone

#9. Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

Peter Ustinov

#10. I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I've read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It's one of only three plans I have.

Caitlin Moran

#11. The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

DeVon Franklin

#12. Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then ... we conclude that ... the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.

Martin Luther

#13. Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.

Dilip Hiro

#14. you say
we were never
meant for this vowed life,
golden bands of only us, and death
do us part. you
say love like it's held in quotation marks,
that this union soured before
it started.

Beth Morey

#15. We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly when alone with your characters. All other times, I'm panting
just pining for the next time I can be with them.

Karen Luellen

#17. How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

Gautama Buddha

#18. If one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.

W.K. Marriott

#19. I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

Nicola Sturgeon

#20. He was gripped by what he could think of only as numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep and intense that they could not be acknowledged because they could not be lived with.

John Williams

#21. I struggle to maintain a facade of only mild interest in him.

Emery Lord

#22. The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.

Teju Cole

#23. The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

Walther Bothe

#24. As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

Lamar Alexander

#25. Technology has now enabled a type of ubiquitous surveillance that had previously been the province of only the most imaginative science fiction writers.

Glenn Greenwald

#26. Families can also be divided into subgroups with different values, perspectives, and and communication styles, even if a subgroup consists of only one individual.

David Bedrick

#27. I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.

Philip Yancey

#28. offered a modicum of privacy, and for an overnight price of only 50 Heller.

Anonymous

#29. No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

John Ruskin

#30. Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#31. Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.

Stephen Rodrick

#32. When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

Rush Limbaugh

#33. If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

Robert Haugen

#34. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

William James

#35. I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

#36. We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent ... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#37. This sudden appearance of Homo sapiens is attributable to the rapid mutation of only seventeen brain-building genes. A scant few, really.

James Rollins

#38. Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.

Lauren Groff

#39. I really like being on set when you've all moved on a job because it makes you bond very quickly. You're all out of your time and comfort zone, so you kind of only have each other.

Anna Popplewell

#40. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

Learned Hand

#41. You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!

Israelmore Ayivor

#42. There are things I want, too. Things I want to change. I'm tired of only being there for a good time, Brenna. I'm tired of being a corrupter of the people I love. I no one wants to be the perpetual fuck up.

Liz Reinhardt

#43. When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. It becomes truly the survival of only the fittest.

Malcolm X

#44. The fragrance I always wear is Coco by Chanel. I've worn it for 20 years. It suits me, it's classic, and I like the simplicity of only ever wearing one fragrance.

Jojo Moyes

#45. I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

David Mamet

#46. It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

William Graham Sumner

#47. I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway.

Jim Butcher

#48. Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

Valerie Solanas

#49. Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

Carl Sagan

#50. Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

Karl Lagerfeld

#51. I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

Warren Christopher

#52. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

Aldous Huxley

#53. I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

Bill Starr

#54. The offering of only one narrow slice of ourselves is especially pernicious on social networks like Facebook and Instagram, where we show others a glowing highlight reel of our lives, but hide the not-so-pretty behind-the-scenes parts.

Anonymous

#55. A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six hundred years, would not only free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune, but would lead to a recovery which today seems scarcely conceivable.

Adolf Hitler

#56. When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

Sathya Sai Baba

#57. We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Criss Jami

#58. I am a fireball of emotions and impulses; my zest for life is unquenchable. And I am either of only two things: Fire or Ice.

Trish Kaye Lleone

#59. I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#60. Miguel Indurain, five-time winner of the Tour de France, reported a resting heart rate of only 28 bpm. The reason for this is that, with appropriate training, the heart muscle increases in both size and strength.

Roy Benson

#61. In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

#62. people should be careful of only looking for signs from God." Remember the Devil can put up billboards too.

Stephan Labossiere

#63. Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

Umberto Eco

#64. Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

Michael Jackson

#65. The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.

Andy Garcia

#66. An animal of only instinct, Johnny Ferret, has in his actions drama, but no theater; theater requires that you draw a circle around the action and observe it from outside the circle; in other words, self-consciousness is theater.

Mary Ruefle

#67. What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

Jean Gebser

#68. Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

Jo Bonner

#69. I'd say that I'm super proud of only four or five things I've done, but mostly I'd like to be remembered as a really good actor who people enjoyed watching.

Gil Bellows

#70. 'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'

Elena Roger

#71. Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

Joseph Heller

#72. The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

Henry Mayhew

#73. We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

Kim Il-sung

#74. I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.

Voltaire

#75. I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

Theodore Bikel

#76. No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

Carol Bly

#77. I was going to need help. I knew of only one true source readily available to me. I stopped for a few moments of prayer.

Janette Oke

#78. There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be
done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

Peter Drucker

#79. Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.

Ryan Lilly

#80. A-ha, but don't you see, not caring about the money, only caring about winning, that's a luxury. You come from money, so you have the luxury of only caring about your accomplishments.

L. H. Cosway

#81. I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

Woody Allen

#82. Adolin was there in a heartbeat, attacking with more skill than any other man Dalinar had known. The lad was a genius with the Blade, an artist with paint of only one shade.

Brandon Sanderson

#83. What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,
and that is not only true, but identical,
that men always act from self-interest.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#84. Dr. Esserman, who directs the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, is one of only a few surgeons in the United States willing to put women with D.C.I.S. on active surveillance instead of performing biopsies, lumpectomies or mastectomies.

Katie Hafner

#85. You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Henry Ward Beecher

#86. Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

Leopold Kronecker

#87. Many books mean many windows; many windows mean many new lights! Don't get stuck in one window, one book, one man, one country and one belief! Increase your windows! Wisdom is the house made of only windows!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#88. It was surprising how many days and years mattered not at all. His story, the heart of him, was really made up of only a handful of seconds or minutes. The rest was empty road, an expanse that only prolonged the travel from one point to another.

Nadia Hashimi

#89. PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

Ambrose Bierce

#90. I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

Nanette Lepore

#91. From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Robert Trout

#92. Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat grappling arts, such as jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent - a far more difficult and complex task.

Renzo Gracie

#93. My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

Ira Sachs

#94. It took him almost a half hour to write a message of only five lines. It took yet another fifteen minutes to delete whatever might be construed as ambiguity, desperation, or references to a history that he no longer had access to. Finally, he took a deep breath and hit 'send'.

Joakim Zander

#95. The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it's natural attributes.

Dada Bhagwan

#96. Spider Jockeys are one of only two mobs (along with Chicken Jockeys) that cannot move through portals.

Steve Adamson

#97. The police cannot be considered simply the custodians of the legal order, but must be seen as the guardians of the social order as well. That they defend it wearing blue uniforms rather than white sheets is a matter of only minor importance.

Kristian Williams

#98. Such watering pots,' Lord Ragsdale commented as he handed each of them ahandkerchief, then pressed a third to his eye. 'See here, you have set me a bad example.' He grinned at Tim. 'But I will practice economy and cry out of only one eye.

Carla Kelly

#99. The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.

Ibn Khaldun

#100. Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

Derek R. Audette