Top 100 Something Only Quotes
#1. He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.
Hope Jahren
#2. I can't believe they let us name a person," Nick had said. "It feels like something only the King of the Land should be able to do." "Or the Queen of the Kingdom," Alice said. "Oh, they'd never let a woman name a person," said Nick. "Obviously.
Liane Moriarty
#3. Everyone at every minute of his life must feel something. Only the dead have no sensations.
Konstantin Stanislavski
#4. There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
Satya Nadella
#5. So good you forgot your name tag, Michelle. Something only an unprofessional idiot would do. Not the behavior of a lady I'd want working in my bookstore. You know, a much prettier girl would never have done that. You know the rules. I'm going to have to see you in my office.
Flower Princess Kitty
#6. To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
Hunter S. Thompson
#7. WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.
Douglas Adams
#8. The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality.
Erich Fromm
#9. Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know?
When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.
Donna Lynn Hope
#10. I can't imagine that I'm supposed to get over it , like hopping a low stone wall; if Thursday was a barrier of some kind, it was made of razor wire, which I did not bound over but thrash through, leaving me in flayed pieces and on the other side of something only in a temporal sense.
Lionel Shriver
#11. Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?
Anthony Doerr
#12. She sent Death a thought, one she hoped would be her final gift. The Game means something only because we lose. That is your gift to humans. So thank you.
Martha Brockenbrough
#13. Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#16. Who the hell uses a burner cell phone when they're not trying to hide something? [..] Only dope dealers, and Hell's Angels, and Tony Soprano use burner cell phones.
Pat Martin
#17. Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge , people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain.
P.D. Ouspensky
#18. Karma's not like a bank. Make a deposit, take a withdrawal. But more and more, I am starting to suspect that all this is payback for something - only not the good kind.
Gayle Forman
#19. We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. That was a miracle. It was something only you could do." "That's what I'm afraid of," Clary whispered. "What?" "That I don't have any more miracles in me,
Cassandra Clare
#21. America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Woodrow Wilson
#22. The brain is a material thing, something you can hold in your hands. The mind is an immaterial thing, something only the Universe can hold.
Toni Sorenson
#23. The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.
Theodor Herzl
#24. On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.
David Jeremiah
#25. We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.
Richard Stearns
#27. Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.
Anthony Bourdain
#28. She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny something -only she doesn't know what to deny!
Lewis Carroll
#29. What's known as bleeding-edge technology," sez Lucas. "No proven use, high risk, something only early-adoption addicts feel comfortable with.
Thomas Pynchon
#30. deep. Something only God can do. He both broke and filled my heart at the same time. I still don't understand that. Over
Charles Martin
#31. The successful have the courage to walk each day toward something;only after coming through something.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#32. Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
Carolina Herrera
#33. God is not opposed to pride because it is something only He can possess; God is opposed to pride because pride is unlike Him.
John Alan Turner
#34. Once you become something, only then, are you worthy of it.
Bryant McGill
#35. Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent.
Susan Cain
#36. When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
J.D. Salinger
#37. Life is precious," says Prentice. "Whatever form it takes, however long it lasts. You should do something only you can do." "Chase after screaming crowds while rotting flamboyantly?
T.W. Brown
#38. It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
James Taylor
#39. Dealing with evil was something only the Lord could do, and in His timing He most certainly would deal with it.
Karen Kingsbury
#40. It's not fair to spend so much time working towards something, only to have someone else's lapse in judgment, poor choice, one mistake, destroy it all.
Kristin Walker
#41. Something only exists when nothing exists; Nothing only exists when something exists.
Joey Lawsin
#42. Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
Bob Dylan
#43. That won't happen, Blayne's hybrid said, and shifted. Shifted into something only Blayne could truly love.
Yep. I'm gonna have freak grandkids.
Shelly Laurenston
#44. [P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.
Tamora Pierce
#45. It is something only a few know in their lives. It is a vision of something so clear, so true, it can only be a madness. You see what life is worth, and you know what death means.
Raymond E. Feist
#46. This blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.
David Levithan
#47. Learn from your existence and borrow things from your day to day. Have adventures. Take risks. Put yourself into your fiction. Because life offers a kind of writing advice you just can't read about
it's something only you can experience.
Chuck Wendig
#48. It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.
Marissa Meyer
#49. The only time I felt a bit better was when some guy would chatme up over a drink or, we were having sex - because then I felt I was worth for something. Only then could I feel happy because somebody wanted something I had. To fill the emptiness inside my soul I filled the hole between my legs.
Rika Yokomori
#50. We pored over the equipment and fixed what was broken, and my father taught me how to preemptively take things apart and study how they work, so that as they inevitably failed I'd be able to restore them. He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it. At
Hope Jahren
#51. A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. It was the relational aspect of humans that undergirded meaning.
Paul Kalanithi
#52. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man ... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
C.S. Lewis
#53. In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.
Carl Jung
#54. It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#55. Have you ever felt like you were searching for something, only you didn't know what it was until you found it?
Lindy Zart
#56. One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.
Stanislaw Lem
#57. It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.
Paul McEuen
#58. I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion. A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.
Paul Kalanithi
#59. I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant
indeed something only hoi polloi would say.
Anne Fadiman
#60. Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window.
Penelope Farmer
#61. But time changed. That was something only drunks and junkies understood. When you couldn't sleep, when you were afraid to look around because of what you might see, time elongated and grew sharp teeth.
Stephen King
#62. Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative.
Mercedes Lackey
#63. Who sneers? wondered Eliza, fadingly. She'd thought it was something only book characters did.
Laini Taylor
#64. We become a master of something only when we know the truth of it. Similarly, when we know the truth of our soul and the oneness of the Universe then we are a Master of Life.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#65. If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.
Robert Bringhurst
#66. The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own
Erich Fromm
#67. I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.
Guy Berryman
#68. You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem.
Alexandra Ivy
#69. I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
Cameron Diaz
#70. There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell behind me and only left a friend.
Angeles Kossio
#71. The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
Dagmara Dominczyk
#72. I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
Lance Henriksen
#73. Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
Dalton Trumbo
#74. It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?
Hilary Swank
#75. adults usually think you can only feel real love when you're fifty or something and have lived through a war.
Callie James
#76. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Mae Jemison
#77. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#78. And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
Helena Christensen
#80. Earl and I actually didn't have much in common with each other, either, but we were the only ten-year-olds in Pittsburgh who liked Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and that counted for something. It actually counted for a lot.
Jesse Andrews
#81. The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.
Larry Mullen Jr.
#82. Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.
Elizabeth Goudge
#83. I want to give myself a ridiculous nickname. Something like "Knuckle Cock," only not so flowery and romantic sounding.
Jarod Kintz
#84. Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.
Muriel Lester
#85. When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.
Thomas Szasz
#86. Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Marvin Hagler
#87. ... But I won't be your prey. There's only one hunter here." His grin sent a shiver down my spine. "I want something more from you, Sorcha Linden. More than your body.
Juliette Cross
#88. I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
Louise Erdrich
#89. Tax and I have a secret world. We are on this earth surrounded by billions of people, and yet, this thing we have, it's just us. It's fucked up, it's insane, but it's something I can only share with him.
Nina G. Jones
#90. You may only get one chance at something ... and that requires confidence in your ability.
Joe Teti
#91. The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best to lower the bar and not be so choosy.
David Sedaris
#92. We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for.
Dwight Longenecker
#93. I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago ... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.
John Cusack
#94. If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.
Gary Panter
#95. There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat
Haile Selassie
#96. For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.
Charles Palliser
#97. Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.
Jean Giono
#98. I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them ... It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.
Annie Leibovitz
#99. I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.
Amanda Bynes
#100. As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.
Anthony Mackie
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