Top 100 Solely Quotes
#1. I focused solely on the sprints, dedicated my time there, got in the weight room, just really did everything I could to make sure I would be in the best position to run for gold.
Allyson Felix
#2. Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.
Anuj
#3. The trick to not getting mired in the past and missing out on the future lies solely in our ability to let go and move on, yet this seems to be the most difficult thing in the world for most people (including myself) to do.
Mandy Hale
#4. Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.
Bertrand Russell
#5. One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#6. I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy
#7. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.
Henri Matisse
#8. I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#9. History is not owned solely by historians. It is a part of everyone's heritage." Captain Hank Bracker. This quote is from the flyleaf of the award winning book "The Exciting Story of Cuba.
Hank Bracker
#10. [God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.
Billy Graham
#11. Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
Carl Jung
#12. Being thy servant, O Mary, is a surety of salvation God grants solely to those He will save.
Andrew Of Crete
#13. We're the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but I'm going to be the one guy who kept his word.
John Paul DeJoria
#14. One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.
Wil Wheaton
#15. I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.
Atticus Shaffer
#16. The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
Joseph Goebbels
#17. He seemed like the type that kept people at arm's length, maybe out of arrogance or maybe from personal choice- either way, I wanted to know him so that those eyes were narrowed and focused solely on me.
R.S. Grey
#18. Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.
Shinjo Ito
#19. I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.
Panda Bear
#20. Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.
Craig Groeschel
#21. Education is too important to be left solely to educators.
Francis Keppel
#22. I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.
William J. Clinton
#23. Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!
Napoleon Hill
#24. We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.
Douglas Booth
#25. The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them had to fill them solely with his own fantasies, with fantastic objects, in order not to go out of his mind.
Thomas Bernhard
#26. People whose desire is solely for self-realisation never know where they are going.
Anonymous
#27. Human pigmentation is contained solely in the epidermis, the skin's outer layer. Lose the epidermis, we all look Scandinavian,
Kathy Reichs
#28. Since I don't feel like I belong solely to any one of them I find that it makes me even more interested and open to other cultures as well. It's also fun looking ethnically ambiguous because no one can quite put a finger on what I am and it's very entertaining to me!
Kina Grannis
#29. Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.
Galileo Galilei
#30. Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#31. If you are using location services on your Kindle for navigation, you are solely responsible for driving safely,
Anonymous
#32. One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford
#33. Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
Annie Dillard
#34. Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
Geoff Mulgan
#35. I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
Bun E. Carlos
#36. It was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself
Robert Kurson
#37. When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.
Rudolf Arnheim
#38. I know that I won't succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.
Drew Barrymore
#39. I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#40. Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs. Don't do it in hope that it earns you a reward at the end, instead let the reward be the beauty created as a result of your actions.
Kendal Rob
#41. It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.
J. M. W. Turner
#42. When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface.
Jules Olitski
#43. I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That's why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.
Kate Winslet
#44. There is one sure means in life of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility and disillusionment. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.
Michael Chabon
#45. I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
M.C. Escher
#46. Whatever we accomplish in life, if it's solely for our own good, then it doesn't mean that much. The things you do that affect others in a positive way are the ones that count. Whatever facet of life you're in, God has given you a gift; do the best you can with that gift.
Alberto Salazar
#47. It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
George Henry Lewes
#48. It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.
Ludwig Von Mises
#49. Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#50. Over the times thou hast no power ... Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
Thomas Carlyle
#51. Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.
Henry Mintzberg
#52. Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
Boyd K. Packer
#53. God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
David Platt
#54. In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.
Brian Greene
#55. Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
Mortimer Adler
#56. Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.
Aditi Shankardass
#57. My governing principle as a critic is to call attention solely to books and writers that merit such attention, and to avoid whenever possible reviewing books "negatively" except in those instances in which the "negative" is countered by an admiring consideration of earlier books by the same author.
Joyce Carol Oates
#58. As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
Charles Darwin
#60. The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
Mikhail Bakunin
#61. But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.
Joan Wolf
#62. There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
Neil Gaiman
#63. Studies have shown that gaining weight is not solely caused by eating unhealthy foods and living a sedentary lifestyle, but in fact, also caused by "stressed" or dysfunctional adrenal glands.
Ashley Moore
#64. You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument...
Gary A. Nilsen
#65. Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.
Edward Young
#66. You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.
Jody Watley
#67. Every success I have ever had or will have in the future comes not solely
from my own ambition and hard work, but also from those that have encouraged,
supported and challenged me. Success is never, ever a one person job.
T.S. Tate
#68. Constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable
William J. Clinton
#69. I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#70. Wal-Mart's relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador's eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.
Douglas Rushkoff
#71. We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.
Kris Carr
#72. Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
Dorothea Dix
#73. A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.
Walter Gropius
#74. I live solely for you. If you're the moon that never sets ... Then I'll walk the night. I'll be a quiet light in the endless darkness surrounding you ... protecting that kindness in your eyes. This is ... my wish.
Arina Tanemura
#75. A $100,000,000 venture capital fund was set up solely for products using a specific computer language.
Cay S. Horstmann
#76. Marriage was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love," writes Coontz.
Aziz Ansari
#77. Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.
Gary Thomas
#78. I ... am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light ... in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.
Bill Hicks
#79. None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up
by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody -
a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns -
bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall
#80. Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think.
Gautama Buddha
#81. As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#82. If we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#83. If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
Randall Terry
#84. To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
Anwar Sadat
#85. Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.
Chris Crawford
#86. I was pretty fruity based solely on my appreciation for Nick Carter." "You even had those fucking trading cards," I said, smiling at the memory. "You were a lame kid.
Santino Hassell
#87. Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.
Cynthia McKinney
#88. We are creatures rearranged, for biological existence continues only through the mutual slaughter and ingestion of its various species. I exist solely through membership in this perfectly weird arrangement of beings that flourish by chewing each other up. Obviously,
Alan W. Watts
#89. Spring declares itself solely in the quality of the air or the little baskets of flowers that street-sellers bring in from the suburbs; this is a spring that is sold in the market-place.
Albert Camus
#90. Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.
Theodore Schroeder
#91. I fear that many people seek to hear God solely as a device for obtaining their own safety, comfort and sense of being righteous. For those who busy themselves to know the will of God, however, it is still true that "those who want to save their life will lose it" (Mt 16:25).
Dallas Willard
#92. There is some prophecy, however, that is unconditional. It depends solely on God himself for fulfillment. Normally it relates to the overview of his plans and purposes for mankind as a whole.
Graham Cooke
#93. She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
Junot Diaz
#94. Beware of relying solely on a resume to hire; skills can be taught. What cannot be taught is a great "can do" attitude.
Beth Ramsay
#95. Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?
Laurence Sterne
#96. Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.
Watchman Nee
#97. I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
William J. Clinton
#98. You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions. - Loring Blackman
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#99. We believe that our salvation depends solely upon God's work in us, and not upon our testimony; and the little child with stammering lips, but wrought upon by the Holy Spirit, will precede vain scribes into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Abraham Kuyper
#100. But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher Columbus
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