Top 100 One & Only Quotes
#1. The most pure form of the movement of rebellion is thus crowned with the heart-rending cry
of Karamazov: if all are not saved, what good is the salvation of one only?
Albert Camus
#2. You may wear your virtues as a crown,
As you walk through life serenely,
And grace your simple rustic gown
With a beauty more than queenly.
Though only one for you shall care,
One only speak your praises;
And you never wear in your shining hair,
A richer flower than daisies.
Phoebe Cary
#3. scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses
Lemony Snicket
#4. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.
Francois Lelord
#5. Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
- Albus Dumbledore, "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban" -
J.K. Rowling
#6. In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.
Peter Rollins
#7. "To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."
Leo Buscaglia
#8. In Lincoln's mind, at least as Lamon interpreted the story, "the illusion was a sign." Both the president-elect and his wife believed it meant he would not only survive his term in office, but four years later win reelection to a second one, only to die before it ended.
Harold Holzer
#9. Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only.
Geraldine Brooks
#10. Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
Sophie Swetchine
#11. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
#12. One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ...
Margaret Oliphant
#13. The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. No." I tilted her chin up. "I expect you to live a damn good life. I expect you to listen to me when I tell you there has never been anyone but you. No one. Only you, always you, forever you. And I'm sorry, but I won't take back what I did." - Nixon
Rachel Van Dyken
#15. To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.
L. Ron Hubbard
#16. In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.
Libba Bray
#17. There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#18. Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
Anais Nin
#20. Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Oscar Wilde
#21. That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#22. One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. G. Weilacher
Ian Molyneaux
#23. Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.
John Hawkes
#24. I find it magnificent how beau-tiful, loose ends find each other in the world if one only waits with de-cent patience, resilience, and quite blind strength.
J.D. Salinger
#25. To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
Cy Twombly
#26. There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.
B. B. Warfield
#27. The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.
Georg Brandes
#28. The Expanded Learning Time program is a voluntary one - only districts and schools that want to apply are in the program and supported by the state to pursue their plans.
Chris Gabrieli
#29. One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.
George Orwell
#30. I must not take this or that doctrine by itself; but I must make up my mind whether or no it is the one only Catholic Church, and then I shall believe all that she teaches, because she teaches it, and not because I understand it.
Robert Hugh Benson
#31. The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Swami Vivekananda
#32. The object Rusty found on Black Ridge looked so much like his Apple TV addon that he at first thought it actually was one ... only modified, of course, so it could hold an entire town prisoner as well as broadcast The Little Mermaid to your television via Wi-Fi and in HD.
Stephen King
#33. A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.
M.F. Moonzajer
#34. Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
William E. Simon
#35. Novel writing seems an altogether less intimidating occupation when one considers that one only need produce a small tale.
Charlie Lovett
#36. Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#37. It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!
Anne Bronte
#38. Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
A.R. Rahman
#39. We need to crush the Invisible Hand. The economy isn't a natural phenomenon. It is just a tool or a mean, that should be dedicated to one only goal; the pursuit of global prosperity.
Jean Ziegler
#41. How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only?
For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?
Pablo Neruda
#42. Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
Ezra Taft Benson
#43. One only realizes the value of air when one is deprived of it and one only begins to value life in the face of death.
James Patterson
#44. Murder is a high-pressure squad and a small one, only twenty permanent members and under any added strain (anyone leaving, anyone new, too much work, too little work), it tends to develop a tinge of cabin-fevery hysteria, full of complicated alliances and frantic rumors.
Tana French
#45. One only realizes the extent of his love when he thinks he has lost the one he loves; and unhappily, very often only begins to love when he feels his love is not returned.
Waguih Ghali
#46. How roundly self-examination is condemned, by the moral prophets of our age! As if the self had no relation to the self, and one only looked in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed; as if the act of self-regarding was not as subtle, fraught and ever-changing as any bond between twin souls.
Eleanor Catton
#47. Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.
Michel De Montaigne
#48. One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
Victor Hugo
#49. But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything.
Virginia Woolf
#50. No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. Russia's 62% of women and only 38% men, many of whom are heavy drinkers, so the battle for the female happiness is a rude one, only the slimmest, the leggiest, the blondest and the sexiest are the winners..
Alexander Vassiliev
#52. I got my windshield replaced for no apparent reason. So now I have a new windshield that looks exactly like my old one, only cleaner.
Jarod Kintz
#53. It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
Nicolas Chamfort
#54. It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#55. One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Margaret Thatcher
#56. Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#58. One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.
Eckhart Tolle
#59. One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
Criss Jami
#60. Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
Freya Stark
#61. Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
Christopher Paolini
#62. The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.
Paulo Coelho
#63. I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
Ward Cunningham
#64. Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.
Herman Melville
#65. Two heads are better than one only if they contain different opinions.
Kenneth Kaye
#66. One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.
Dion Fortune
#67. To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
Jane Harrison
#68. Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.
Tom Hodgkinson
#69. By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer.
Colette
#70. One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.
Graham Hawkes
#71. Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.
Sharon Cameron
#72. It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#73. Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
G.K. Chesterton
#74. In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.
Philippe Halsman
#75. To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
Mark Twain
#76. He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.
Matthew Arnold
#77. One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind
and that is as much in our hands as theirs
is the right of having something to do.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#78. One only hope my heart can cheer,-
The hope to meet again.
George Linley
#79. The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
Heraclitus
#80. A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.
Robert M. Hensel
#81. When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.
Ovid
#82. One only has a few fragrant nights of spring. Store your memories for when you are old. You will enjoy them again under such a moon as this.
Kerry Greenwood
#83. Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
Kahlil Gibran
#84. Never be tempted by water. The water tap should be sealed at lunchtime. If, for example, a sauce goes wrong, adding water doesn't help at all; one only achieves a taste of dishwater.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#85. There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate.
John Jackson Miller
#86. The wickedness of the church can be one thing and one only: turning the Good News of Jesus into the bad news of religion.
Robert Farrar Capon
#87. In life, have but one desire, one only
to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.
Pedro Arrupe
#88. The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.
Thomas Jefferson
#89. One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Ivan Turgenev
#90. Four little chests all in a row,
Dim with dust, and worn by time,
Four women, taught by weal and woe
To love and labor in their prime. "
"Four sisters, parted for an hour,
None lost, one only gone before,
Made by love's immortal power,
Nearest and dearest evermore.
Louisa May Alcott
#91. One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.
Stefan Zweig
#92. One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.
Raheel Farooq
#93. If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montesquieu
#94. There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
Robert Dale Owen
#95. But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.
Richard Rodriguez
#96. Reed says that God made a thousand, thousand worlds, each like this one, only different.
I hope there's one of them in which I chose to walk another path. But I fear that in any universe my path will be marked with blood.
Neil Gaiman
#97. There's no right way to plan a life and no right way to live one - only plenty of wrong ways.
Richard Ford
#98. There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.
Marian Engel
#99. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only - a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
Barton Seaver
