Top 100 Only For Quotes
#1. Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
Elie Wiesel
#2. My words, my writing, my actions - these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#3. Judge not lest ye be judged" has become the battle cry not only for biblically illiterate secularists, but for professing evangelicals as well. Postmodern hypersensitivity is not a malady merely for unbelievers; Christians are downright allergic to judging.
Todd Friel
#4. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for what will be as for what has been; he cares only for what ought to be. And for my present purpose I specially insist on this abstract independence.
G.K. Chesterton
#5. In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
George Gurdjieff
#6. My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.
Pam Grier
#7. We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.
Nathan Filer
#8. Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
Wislawa Szymborska
#9. The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.
Virchand Gandhi
#10. Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!
ABD- RU-SHIN
#11. Imbibing the art of giving is not only a spiritual act; it is a belief n the future, and that future has to be good. Giving is investing in that future; it is like helping to make the dream come true not only for you but for others.
Vishwas Chavan
#12. As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
Ed Pastor
#13. The harp is an insipid instrument
no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.
Mason Cooley
#14. Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate.
Henny Youngman
#17. Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.
Orhan Pamuk
#18. Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.
Rajneesh
#19. Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.
Gary Shteyngart
#21. Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.
Terri Windling
#23. To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#24. Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.
Greg Laurie
#25. To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
Abdul Kalam
#26. Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
Pierre Corneille
#27. When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act.
We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humble righteousness.
Tom Krause
#28. We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right.
William Randolph Hearst
#29. Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
Anna Lindh
#31. The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment.
C.S. Lewis
#32. Then all was quiet save only for the low voices of those that talked together, ... , and saving, also, for the mellow snoring of Friar Tuck, who enjoyed his sleep with a noise as of one sawing soft wood very slowly.
Howard Pyle
#34. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They
John Connolly
#35. I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.
Richard O'Barry
#36. Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence ... you are dancing only for a little while you see ... a little while you are dancing.
H.W.L. Poonja
#37. Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.
E.L. Doctorow
#38. What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
Odilon Redon
#39. There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.
Dorianne Laux
#40. When I was a kid I never won anything and when I mentioned it to my mom she looked up from her book and pointed out that I had once been the youngest person in the entire world. Sure, it was only for a millisecond, but it was a record I'd set without even trying.
Jenny Lawson
#41. Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.
Tim Wu
#43. If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work.
Jean Chatzky
#44. I don't know why the gods made Fate our master then gave us a fighting spirit, perhaps only for their own amusement, perhaps to give us a thirst for life.
Scott Oden
#45. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Charles Darwin
#46. My tears of joy
hear the raindrops crying,
as the rain never wants to pour
down on my cloudy days
when I make
our love-dreams
for the sun to dream
only for you ...
(From the poem "Only For You" By Munia Khan)
Munia Khan
#47. The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.
Chauncey Depew
#48. They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will - but only for a brief, little while -
Maryrose Wood
#49. The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.
Cormac McCarthy
#50. Not only for science, but for any kind of research work and studies--isolation, pure ambience, and peace of mind is a must. Urban ambience is full of destructions and everyday's cacophony further hampers the research aptitude of a student.
Bhaskar Sharma
#51. Live not only for today, but nurse a vision, live for the future
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
#53. Keep your eyes on the prize and know that the trials are only for a while, so smile.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#54. God's love for and protection of us are always consistent with his will for us - and his will for us is always consistent with what is best, not only for us, but also for a fallen world that he is always trying to rescue.
Craig Parshall
#55. Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.
Dierks Bentley
#56. It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.
Carol Alt
#57. John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people ... George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Joe Lieberman
#58. The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
B.C. Forbes
#59. Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God,
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
#60. Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Lois Wyse
#61. Someone leaves only for someone else to come.
Paulo Coelho
#62. Haven't you noticed that by running away you end up in more trouble?" "Yes, but, you see, you can run away from that, too," said Rincewind. "That's the beauty of the system. Dead is only for once, but running away is for ever.
Terry Pratchett
#63. There is no 'love of God' for you unless you have repented or unless you do repent. Make no mistake about this. Do not rely or bank on God's love. It is only for the penitent; there is no entry into the kingdom of God except by repentance.
Martyn
#65. I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy ...
Claude Monet
#67. Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.
Ari Fleischer
#68. We are not responsible for the world's suffering, only for our indifference.
Marty Rubin
#70. Please don't cry one tear for me, I'm not afraid of what I have to say.This is my one and only voice, so listen close ... it's only for today.
Shinedown
#71. I pretended for a moment_ and only for a moment_ that I was the person she was making room for. That the hand she held up reached for me. That the heart thumping in her chest beat for me and me alone. I allowed myself that split second of weakness.
Brodi Ashton
#72. Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.
Sam Smith
#73. Awareness, no matter how confused it may be, develops from every act of rebellion: the sudden, dazzling perception that there is something in man with which he can identify himself, even if only for a moment.
Albert Camus
#74. His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.
Colum McCann
#75. Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
John Wooden
#76. I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
Jane Hamilton
#77. I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.
Claire LaZebnik
#78. Dance to forget yourself.
Dance to forgive
Let your body and your mind agree
If only for this breathe right now
Dance like you're free
Courtney C. Stevens
#79. The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
G.K. Chesterton
#80. Do all wizards," he said, "get the kiddie crowns and war them around? Or is that only for special occasions?"
"Do all werewolves," I shot back, snatching the crown from my head, "wear glasses and too much Old Spice? Or is taht only for full moons?
Jim Butcher
#81. Instead I find myself more and more outside; from one courtyard I move to another courtyard, as if in this palace all the doors served only for leaving and never for entering.
Italo Calvino
#82. Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is - a purely egoistic cause.
Max Stirner
#83. As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
Charles De Foucauld
#84. As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn't have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
Oswald Chambers
#87. Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and returns to the blue. He has not perished, he is not lost. Neither will he be forgotten.
Henry Miller
#88. Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#89. Playtime and nature time are important not only for learning but also for health and development.
Tara Parker-Pope
#90. That I am responsible for how I have been feeling, not only for what I have been doing.
The Arbinger Institute
#91. I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.
Jim Courier
#92. Aww, the sound of waves crashing along the ocean side and spraying back up to touch the wind only for a moment, then to fall back down becoming the ocean once more...
Melanie Kilsby
#93. Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.
Jon Stewart
#94. Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
Richard Stallman
#95. Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is only for deprived and sad people, then you're not helping me and you're not helping yourself. It's meant to be for everyone.
Benjamin Clementine
#96. Build on past successes, be grateful for what you do have, and know that this, too, shall pass. It's only for the now. Whatever we're facing, it's not forever.
Dave Pelzer
#97. Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image
Bruce Lee
#98. I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously ...
Norman Mailer
#99. It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
Mary Ritter Beard
#100. She danced as if nothing had ever made her so happy. She smiled as if it was only for him. He hoped those smiles meant she liked him, because he hoped to dance only with her at the ball tomorrow night.
Melanie Dickerson
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