Top 100 Only As Quotes
#1. I know'd my name to be Magwitch, chrisen'd Abel. How did I know it? Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to be chaffinch, sparrer, thrush. I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds' names come out true, I suppose mine did.
Charles Dickens
#2. The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened
L.J. DeVet
#3. only one Person can live the Christian life, and that is Christ Himself; and only as I
trust Him to live His life in me, can I possibly live the quality of life that satisfies the heart of God and challenges the world in which I witness.19
Stephen Seamands
#4. It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
Judith Butler
#5. The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.
George Richards Minot
#6. Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.
Carol S. Dweck
#7. As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child
Beth Moore
#8. The present is intelligible only as a commentary upon and response to the past in which the past, if necessary and if possible, is corrected and transcended,
Alasdair MacIntyre
#9. Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect and selfless generosity.
Charles De Foucauld
#10. Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.
Hilary Swank
#11. A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
Groucho Marx
#12. We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which not only assures the preservation of its nationality, but by the development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the highest freedom.
Adolf Hitler
#13. A monster movie is only as good as the monster in it.
Matthew Reilly
#14. You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.
Sarah Payne Stuart
#15. We are only as sick as our secrets.
Rob Bell
#17. The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#18. A story is only as good as its villain.
Luke Taylor
#19. Our Founders warned against this. They said don't ... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
Sharron Angle
#20. My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable."
Riccardo Tisci
#21. Accept only as much 'cleanliness' that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain 'cleanliness' such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.
Dada Bhagwan
#22. After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.
Rick Riordan
#24. A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#25. We're only as needy as our unmet needs.
John Bowlby
#26. A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
L. Ron Hubbard
#27. The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.
The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.
Toba Beta
#28. Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
James Russell Lowell
#29. The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.
Warren Buffett
#30. The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#32. I've seen the dark side of life. I lived the dark side of life. I live in a dark place. But it's only as dark as I make it. My body is locked up but my mind is free.
Steven Jennings
#34. The pretense that the workings of the mind, like the actions of the body, are subject to the control of laws, does not seem sufficiently demolished ... The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#37. A script is only as good as the director who's making it.
Helen McCrory
#38. Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
Vannevar Bush
#40. If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#41. You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.
Janis Joplin
#42. Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
Tertullian
#43. You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
John Galliano
#44. Some of the biggest companies in the world have security that is only as good as a minimum-wage phone support worker who has the power to reset your account. And they have valid business reasons for giving them this power.
Anonymous
#45. But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
Ellen G. White
#46. A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head
#47. I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
Tom Hopkins
#48. I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.
Charlie Chaplin
#50. Slow, though. Okay? Sweet?"
He took her hand and brought it to his lips. "So slow. So sweet. Only what you want. Only as much as you want. Talk to me, though, okay? Don't try to deal.
Susan Fanetti
#52. You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.
Robert M. Drake
#53. Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.
Sally Hogshead
#54. People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
Helen McCrory
#55. Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.
Sarah Smiley
#56. Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
#57. The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
Nina Fedoroff
#58. Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.
Gwen Moore
#59. In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
Timothy Keller
#61. An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.
Robert Kiyosaki
#63. If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation's immigration policy.
Joe Arpaio
#64. Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.
Frances Trollope
#65. Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.
Feist
#66. All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
Daniel Defoe
#67. A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures
Carl Braaten
#68. Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.
Suzy Menkes
#69. The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.
Chester W. Nimitz
#70. She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.
Nora Roberts
#71. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
Cherie Currie
#72. But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
Boris Pasternak
#73. If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other.
Brian K. Vaughan
#74. Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.
Charles Demuth
#75. Man who treat Woman without respect
and see Woman ONLY as a public toilett
forget where they spend their first 9
months of their Life!
Lily Amis
#76. 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
#77. Political ideologies, too, cannot be defined in terms of assumptions or values, but only as rival versions of the metaphor that SOCIETY IS A FAMILY. The political right likens society to a family commanded by a strict father, the political left to a family cared for by a nurturant parent.
Steven Pinker
#78. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.
Karen Marie Moning
#79. Every local church is only as good as the individual members are, not one bit better. If
A.W. Tozer
#80. You reap what you sow!" I scream at him as he fades. All the rage I've felt swells in me, blinding me, and fills me with a pulsing, tangible hatred that seeps away only as Apollo's boots deactivate and he tumbles down through the swirling storm. I
Pierce Brown
#81. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.
Peter Moon
#82. Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She
Alexander McCall Smith
#83. Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.
David McCord
#84. Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
Jerry Saltz
#85. India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
Hans Vestberg
#86. Criticism has already settled all accounts with this subject. It no longer figures as an end in itself, but only as a means. Its essential pathos is indignation, its essential work is denunciation.
Karl Marx
#87. Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.
Joan Crawford
#88. The world is here only as long as you look for it, only as long as you keep your eyes open.
David James Poissant
#89. A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.
Kelly Jones
#90. We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.
Sharon Salzberg
#91. I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms of my craft. If hypothetically, I saw myself only as a sex symbol, or as some other limited stereotype, I think I would feel like a complete failure.
Viola Davis
#92. A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can
Moms Mabley
#93. A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell
#94. 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
#96. The things you believe in only as real as the superstitions you follow.
Mara Joaquin
#97. The passion of Jesus is lonely only as all our deaths are lonely. He is with us in the loneliness of death, too. And so, he and we are not alone even there. The same blow that strikes him dead, strikes us all dead, and it strikes us in the same way.
Craig Keen
#98. [The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
Dennis Oppenheim
#99. They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Andre Gide
#100. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.
Frederic Bastiat
