Top 100 Only That Quotes
#1. What had I seen? Too much. What did I know? Only that knowledge carries a damned high price. Miss Wilcox, my teacher, had taught me so much. Why had she never taught me that?
Jennifer Donnelly
#2. He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they know is safe and that which he tells them to do. So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.
Mike Royko
#3. But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Aristotle.
#4. We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
Chief Joseph
#5. Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
Arthur Helps
#6. How many did she kill?"
"Dozens, my Lord, until her sword was dull with the blood of her enemies."
Reign stroked the edge of the dagger with his forefinger until a drop of blood was drawn. The blood absorbed into the blade. "Only that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.
Danielle Monsch
#7. It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.
Edward J. Renehan Jr.
#8. We are not here to earn riches with a bow. The wolf does not think of fine things, only that his pack is strong and no other wolf dares to cross his path. That is enough.
Conn Iggulden
#9. Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.
Veronica Roth
#10. Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written about him, so he is very near immortal, as long as humans remember them. Not to say he is immune to iron and technology-far from it. Puck is strong, but even he cannot resist the effects.
Julie Kagawa
#11. Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
Bernice Weissbourd
#12. I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.
Bell Hooks
#13. Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
Some live to ease the burdens of others.
Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."
~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. Mercy.
Do any of the gods care about such things or only that their contracts and agreements are fulfilled?
T.K. Thorne
#16. Those who know, not only that the Everlasting lives in them, but that what they, and all things, really are is the Everlasting, dwell in the groves of the wish-fulfilling trees, drink the brew of immortality, and listen everywhere to the unheard music of eternal concord. These are the immortals.
Joseph Campbell
#17. I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.
C.S. Lewis
#18. But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?"
"Thirteen years now."
"Thirteen years where you could have righted a wrong."
She finally looks at me. "Life is only that simple when you're young, my girl.
Patrick Ness
#19. I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.
Richard Paul Evans
#20. Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
Alberto Manguel
#21. But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
Henry Rollins
#23. You don't have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the gospel isn't only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus, but also that the eternal Word is made present in weak and wonderful people.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#24. We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#25. when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only.
Paulo Coelho
#26. No one was more liberal than anyone else anywhere anyway. It was only that here, in Willesden, there was just not enough of any one thing to gang up against any other thing and send it running to the cellars while windows were smashed.
Zadie Smith
#27. I trust the red sun setting, the leafless November trees. On Monday morning I look foward fearlessly to Friday's eve. But humans are not as reliable as nature, as trees. I wonder if you'll come back; I trust only that you leave.
Ellen Wittlinger
#28. All that moves exhausts itself eventually. Only that which is still is for always.
Sadghuru
#29. And not only that but ... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.
Umberto Guidoni
#30. When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.
Roland Barthes
#31. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.
Carl Jung
#32. The truth was, she was becoming more and more uncomfortably conscious not only that the things she said, and a good many of the things she thought, had been taken down off a rack and put on, but that what she really felt was something else again.
Doris Lessing
#33. A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
Thomas Paine
#34. He had never actually said what he hunted, only that he enjoyed it.
Kayla Krantz
#35. I hope only that you have been able to find a little gold in the ashes.
Lowell Blair
#36. Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.
Saadi
#37. Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.
Karl Hess
#38. Why the clay?" "That is also what I am," Vashet said. "Only that which bends can teach.
Patrick Rothfuss
#39. Solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that God is actively present in our lives
healing, teaching and guiding
we need to set aside a time and space to give God our undivided attention. (Matt 6:6)
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#40. The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
C. G. Jung
#41. The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.
Benjamin Koldyke
#42. I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
Daniel Goleman
#43. By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....
Orson Scott Card
#46. I will have that, Colin thought. I will have it. I will. With Katherine. But I won't be only that, he resolved. I will leave behind something more that one photo album where I always look old.
John Green
#47. Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
Auguste Comte
#48. I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if they ever hear me saying something like this, they can break a stick over my skull. I ask only that they play aggressively.
Fred Shero
#49. When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.
Barry S. Strauss
#50. The 'equilibrium' that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It's only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.
Erich Segal
#51. Siddhartha Gautama said that "life has dissatisfaction" (dukkha). He didn't say that "life is suffering and nothing but suffering" - only that we all suffer in larger or smaller ways.
Doug Kraft
#52. From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that
the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God, when it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created.
Mike Huckabee
#54. Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable.
Debasish Mridha
#56. About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.
Edna Ferber
#57. Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. They have only that power which the secret decree of the Almighty allots to them, in order that we may not set too great store by earthly prosperity,
Augustine Of Hippo
#59. All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.
Ayn Rand
#61. If she sees him again, she isn't sure what she might do. Only that it will include grievous bodily harm and possible grounds for her own firing.
Nenia Campbell
#62. The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can send it away at small cost, provided only that you give it what you owe, not merely all you are able to
Seneca.
#63. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions,
Henry David Thoreau
#64. First of all, you need to know that an emotion is only that - an emotion - even though it may be a big, strong one. You are so much bigger, so much more than this emotion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#65. If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.
Margaret Bourke-White
#66. In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge
#67. Dear God, I surrender this situation to you. May it be used for your purposes. I ask only that my heart be open to give love and to receive love. May all the results unfold according to your will. Amen. Whatever you do, do it for God.
Marianne Williamson
#68. It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
Joe Bradley
#69. President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.
Conan O'Brien
#70. WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it, with its - the concept we have of scientific journalism, I find very important and really appeals to me, that all of the source documents should be there.
Sarah Harrison
#71. You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.
Khaled Hosseini
#72. When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer.
Conan O'Brien
#73. Those who regard worldly affairs as a hindrance to buddha dharma think only that there is no buddha dharma in the secular world; they do not understand that there is no secular world in buddha dharma.
Dogen
#74. It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
C.L.R. James
#75. When we put up with any situation we don't have to put up with, it's not because we're dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.
Richard Bach
#76. Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.
Al-Ghazali
#77. Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good.
Janet Fitch
#78. He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#79. There is really no satisfying or new way to describe beauty, and besides, I find it embarrassing to do so. So I will say only that he was beautiful, and that I found myself suddenly shy, unsure even of how to address him
Hanya Yanagihara
#80. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place
Oscar Wilde
#81. It looks like President Bush will be handing over power to the Iraqis by June 30th. That's amazing and not only that, but it looks like he'll be handing over power to the Democrats by November 2nd.
David Letterman
#82. According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.
Conan O'Brien
#83. I'm not a hundred percent sure why I'm here, only that it feels good to be somewhere where no one hates me. It's sad that I would rather be with a total stranger than with people that should've been my family.
Joan Reginaldo
#84. God loves us as we are, but He also loves ... God doesn't care what roads we've traveled, only that our roads turn to Him.
DiAnn Mills
#85. Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
Pablo Neruda
#86. I should have told you. I guess I ... wanted you to know. I wanted you to know what I needed, but maybe you couldn't understand that what I needed was you."
"Do you need me?"
"I can survive without you, but it's only that. Surviving. I want to live.
Kit Rocha
#87. It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.
Henry Latham Doherty
#88. I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
Truman Capote
#89. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on? ... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#90. A Taoist is a man who does only that which is absolutely necessary. His life is almost like a telegram.
Osho
#91. The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.
DeWitt Wallace
#92. For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.
John Steinbeck
#93. I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#94. All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.
Paul Auster
#96. They asked him questions he had never thought of: What is more important, the soul or the mind? Are we responsible for each other or only ourselves? Is there such a thing as mystery, or only that which is not yet understood?
Clare Vanderpool
#97. In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.
Frederick Lenz
#98. We don't know what drives and sustains us, only that we are most miserably driven and, imperfectly, sustained.
John Barth
#99. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.
Joseph Sobran
#100. You never really heard anything about Humpty when he was whole; only that he was broken, irreparable.
T.L. Hines
