Top 100 One Can Only Quotes
#1. George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
E.C. Bentley
#2. In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.
Franz Kafka
#4. Love is nothing but a Pentimento", she mumbled, not sure if he could hear her. "It looks like something from the outside, whie it's something totally different from the inside. And one can only understand this after some time, when the lie on the outside peels off.
Cameron Jace
#5. One can only discover what has already come into existence.
Shirley Hazzard
#6. When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
Imre Kertesz
#7. If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.
Emmet Fox
#8. One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.
Saladin Ahmed
#9. Never in our history have we been headed at such breakneck speed toward our own financial, political and cultural destruction. One can only pray that before it's too late, enough Democrats will come to their senses and help get this freight train under control.
David Limbaugh
#10. One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.
Peter Hoeg
#11. And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.
Alex Stein
#12. The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
Eugene Delacroix
#13. When one is speaking of the essence of things, it often happens that one can only speak in generalities. Concrete things capture one's attention, but they are often a little more than trivia. The more one tires to see into the distance, the more generalized things become.
Haruki Murakami
#14. Given the blatant deceit regarding the biologically harmful effects of antenna towers, cell phones and WiFi radiation, one can only wonder what is going on with all of the other forms of radiation.
Steven Magee
#15. One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.
Georges Danton
#16. One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. One can only have the illusion of honesty when not knowing his own identity. In this sense, moral is an illusion. It manifests only on those that have transposed such illusion.
Robin Sacredfire
#18. When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.
Arthur Miller
#19. I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself."
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Robin Hobb
#20. When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.
Anton Chekhov
#21. One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
Virginia Woolf
#22. One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.
Luigi Pirandello
#23. One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.
Zaman Ali
#24. Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles ...
Edward Abbey
#25. One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie
#26. One can only be in awe of the creativity of chocolate marketers. My take is that if there is a health benefit, it is small.
Marion Nestle
#29. Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.
W. H. Auden
#30. You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
Louisa May Alcott
#31. Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. That is impossible. Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
John Polanyi
#32. In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.
Hedi Slimane
#33. Perhaps it is meant to be hard. Perhaps there are some things so previous that one can only be tested when one is asked to give them up.
Sheri S. Tepper
#34. There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
George Orwell
#35. John Wesley's own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.
Jared Brock
#36. I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#37. One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.
Peter Drucker
#39. I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.
Lisa Edelstein
#40. One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.
Moby
#41. One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.
J.R. Tompkins
#42. Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation.
Rajneesh
#44. Islam teaches that one can only find peace in one's life by submitting to Almighty God (Allah) in heart, soul and deed.
Raad
#45. One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
John Burroughs
#46. There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
Franz Kafka
#47. One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.
Albert Einstein
#48. One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing - and reading. Reading good books written by real artists - until you understand why they are good.
Truman Capote
#49. The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#50. Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.
Ming-Dao Deng
#51. One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#52. If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
Robert Anton Wilson
#53. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
Robin Hobb
#54. A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire
Nelson Mandela
#55. One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
Mark Thomas
#56. There is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means.
George Orwell
#57. But one cannot avenge a death, not really. One can only try to honor the memory of the dead by furthering their life's work to the best of one's ability.
Delphine Dryden
#58. One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
Graham Greene
#59. Mauna Kea is a known biologically hostile work environment and one can only wonder why the
astronomy community is investing 1.4 billion dollars to build the world's largest telescope there.
Steven Magee
#60. In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.
Andrew Lang
#61. I am not cruel," he said. "Not in the sense you mean. But cruelty is a useful tool if one can only recognise the precise moment when it must be used.
Alastair Reynolds
#62. Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
Ambrose
#63. One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.
Robert Breault
#64. Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard M. Nixon
#65. One can acquire money, fame and distinction, but one cannot create happiness or unhappiness, not for oneself or for others. One can only accept what comes, although one can, to be sure, accept it in entirely different ways.
Hermann Hesse
#66. One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.
Anton Chekhov
#67. One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#68. His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such intersections we always encounter what we have already seen.
Raymond Queneau
#69. Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
Anais Nin
#70. Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
Gustave Flaubert
#71. One can only tolerate the absolute idiocy of Man for so long before bringing out the bat.
Dean Hale
#72. There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them ... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.
Hannah Hart
#73. It's a question of wanting to know how the story turns out. And one can only know that about one story, ever.
Caleb Crain
#74. This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash, flipped through in succession, leaving a richness of images imprinted on a sunburned retina.
Ann Zwinger
#75. Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...
Agatha Christie
#76. In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
#77. One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.
Mia Maestro
#78. How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
Vincent Van Gogh
#79. One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica, or of their family Chihuahua, don't actually like music very much.
Nick Hornby
#80. Radio Wave Sickness and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity are easily preventable and one can only wonder how much longer the insanity of modern governments is going to be allowed to continue in this area.
Steven Magee
#81. There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
A. C. Benson
#83. One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
Thomas Harris
#84. One can only blaspheme if one believes.
W. H. Auden
#85. We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Bill James
#86. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
Virginia Woolf
#87. One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.
April White
#89. The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
May Sarton
#90. Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#91. There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Jean Cocteau
#92. One can only organize so much and then leave the rest to fate.
Jenna Lindsey
#93. How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction.
Andre Gide
#94. One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
Freya Stark
#95. And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.
George Carlin
#96. I always think of my father when I sing arias about loss and love and longing. It gave me that definite deep sorrow that one can only get from life experience, you know?
Sondra Radvanovsky
#97. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.
Ann Coulter
#98. One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan Perlis
#99. From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.
Freya Stark
#100. One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.
Alice Miller
