Top 100 Only Thing Quotes
#1. Love is the only thing that can change the unchangeable.
Rick Warren
#2. From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319)
Jacques Lacan
#3. If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.
Michelle Dockery
#4. What we are today doesn't show what we were yesterday. After all, the only thing unchangeable about this world is the constant change
Nikhil Kushwaha
#6. One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam
Maggie Stiefvater
#7. The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
Brad Feld
#8. Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God ... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.
Howard Thurman
#9. Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert Camus
#10. The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
Markus Zusak
#11. What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.
Paul Feig
#12. I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#13. The only thing written in stone is your epitaph.
Elaine Radley
#14. The name sounds almost too perfect. And as I said, you look perfect, too. The only thing left ... is to be perfect.
Jay Asher
#15. Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation's status as a worldwide superpower.
Rick Falkvinge
#16. The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
Steve Vai
#17. The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.
Wayne Dyer
#18. It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#19. In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.
Pete Wentz
#20. I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my heart is being able to gain God's good pleasure and, therefore, trying to make him known correctly and loved by humanity.
Fethullah Gulen
#21. The only thing that ever scared him was finding out there was something he couldn't do, so he damn well made sure there was anything he couldn't.
Joey W. Hill
#22. My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.
Denis Leary
#23. Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.
George Alexiou
#24. I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.
Robert Barry
#25. The only thing that happens if you run from a predator is a good chase.
Donna Augustine
#26. 'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns.
Axl Rose
#27. perhaps all parents feel this way, but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a best friend. You
Fredrik Backman
#28. I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
#29. I grew up in a town called Hopedale, Massachusetts. I was born there in 1964, and the only thing I hate outside of myself is everything else.
Dana Gould
#30. The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
Edith Wharton
#31. The only thing that changes as we evolve is the idea of what serves us.
Neale Donald Walsch
#32. The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
Henry Rollins
#33. The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
Sebastian Junger
#35. The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. I read people.
James A. Newman
#36. Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.
Tracy Chapman
#37. The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker
#38. No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.
Jack Welch
#39. The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.
Sean Hannity
#40. I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.
Rick Moranis
#41. Sometimes I think you're the only thing keeping me sane.
Julie Kagawa
#42. I read because imagination was the only thing that elevated me beyond my own reality. To look at my world as my only plane of existence was so limiting, and a little depressing. I needed the boundless worlds I found in good fiction.
Katie Ray
#43. But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.
Suzanne Collins
#44. What can I give you? I get a handsome guy who does look good in the morning, and I get a great ring. What do you get?"
"The only thing I've ever wanted." He held her tight and smiled. "I get you,wild thing.
Rachel Gibson
#45. I could have," she said, "but it would have been no more real than the visions that plague me." "So you chose a pathetic guard." Her lips quivered. "You don't understand. He is the only thing that is real." Aimery
Marissa Meyer
#46. Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.
David Levithan
#47. They're the only thing worse than family, other people's family.
The Crazy Ones
#48. The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
Oliver Platt
#49. I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role. Every single role is important.
Bill O'Brien
#50. Truth can be cruel. Yet it is the only thing of value.
Pierce Brown
#51. The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Arthur Adamov
#52. In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
Russell Lynes
#53. Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about.
Kim Harrison
#55. The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.
RuPaul
#56. What did an invisible God want from a bunch of frail, selfish people? The only thing Landon could figure was that He'd like for them to learn to love and help one another. Why else would they be living on such a difficult planet?
Cindy Woodsmall
#57. The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
Jonathan Galassi
#58. This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.
Steven Tyler
#59. Your speech so halting and unguarded
is the only thing left
with which to content myself.
But the accent is changed, the colour is different.
Eugenio Montale
#60. Death comes to us all, that is the only thing we can be certain of. It makes no difference whether it is a thief in a garbage dump or a policeman in the line of duty. When someone dies at the hands of another, the pain for the survivors is the same.
Kjell Eriksson
#61. One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
Robert Browning
#62. I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.
Tommy Lee Jones
#63. If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#64. Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
#65. The most radical conclusion to draw from this would be that your mind is the only thing that exists.
Thomas Nagel
#66. The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
Tim Pawlenty
#67. Only the stick was his finger and the counter was the only thing keeping him safe from my all out crazy.
Airicka Phoenix
#68. I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read.
David Foster Wallace
#69. O Allah,
You know that the only thing I want in this life
Is to be obedient to Your command.
Even the living sight of my eyes
Is service at your court
Rabia Basri
#70. I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.
Molly Ringwald
#71. The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.
Jodi Picoult
#72. The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
Duane Michals
#74. that's the thing with love - time doesn't exist with it. The only thing love counts is the heartbeats.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#76. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.
Rae Carson
#77. The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
Judy Blume
#78. Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.
Carlos Castaneda
#79. The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde
#80. When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.
Conn Iggulden
#81. For that moment the heat, the mission, the miscommunication and confusion-non of it mattered. The only thing that did matter was the way their clothed erections ground against each other. The only thing that mattered was how it felt to run tongue against Sin's lips, silently begging for entrance.
Santino Hassell
#82. Know a good thing when you have it, fight like hell to keep it, and love like it's the only thing you know how to do.
Melissa Andrea
#83. The only thing which can be regarded as properly tragic is resistance, resistance on the part of a man to whatever it is that oppresses him.
Isaiah Berlin
#84. Say what you will about seeing the bright side in every situation, but sometimes there is no bright side. Sometimes the only thing to see is darkness for miles and miles with no way to find even a single glimmer of light.
Amy Matayo
#85. I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.
Harry Hay
#86. Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?
Buzz Aldrin
#87. The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.
David Rakoff
#88. Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."
Vince Gill
#89. Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
Evan Esar
#90. The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
Jacques Lacan
#91. Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier?
Linda Fiorentino
#92. It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.
Stephenie Meyer
#93. You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is
your absence, Alaric
Alyssa Day
#94. He was doing the right thing. No matter how painful, no matter how upset she thought she was now ... in the long run, ending it here, before she learned the truth about him, was the only thing he could do.
Elisabeth Naughton
#95. The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.
John Green
#96. The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.
Natasha Tsakos
#97. There is no such thing as a bottomless pit. If it were bottomless, it would not be a pit. The only thing that comes close to being a bottomless pit is the intrinsic depravity of mankind.
Ron Brackin
#98. I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo
#99. I'm just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it's insane. The only thing I know is that I don't know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that's within me, whatever that is, so I'm just trying to trust that.
Emma Stone
#100. Sometimes your soul just can't let go of someone. They mean too much to you. Do you very best to love them from a distance. Love is the only thing that travels with clarity and doesn't have to be dissected, disputed or questioned.
Shannon L. Alder
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