Top 100 The Only Quotes
#1. It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet.
Johanna Drucker
#2. A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
Lord Chesterfield
#3. History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.
Johann Gustav Droysen
#4. More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money ...
Gertrude Stein
#5. No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?
Seth Godin
#7. Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
#8. Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
Fernando Pessoa
#9. The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
#10. I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black
Joe Biden
#11. Johnson told the doctors that "he enjoyed nothing but whiskey, sunshine and sex." Reedy found the moment "poignant," he was to recall. "Without realizing what he was doing, he had outlined succinctly the tragedy of his life. The only way he could get away from himself was sensation: sun, booze, sex.
Robert A. Caro
#12. Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.
Haruki Murakami
#13. The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
John Irving
#14. It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.
Dave Brubeck
#15. The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler
#17. Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.
Steve Carell
#19. Really the only time men and women get along is when women want sex.
Brian South
#20. The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
Henry Rollins
#21. The only thing that changes as we evolve is the idea of what serves us.
Neale Donald Walsch
#22. The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
William Hazlitt
#23. The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
Paulo Coelho
#24. The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
Gertrude Atherton
#25. Philip is the only person in the Bible who was called an evangelist, and he was a deacon!
Billy Graham
#26. The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the program's target. But the only sure way to prove this relevance is to have, in fact, already proved it.
June Goodfield
#27. I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#28. The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.
Leo Tolstoy
#29. My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My Dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.
Mike Huckabee
#30. The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel
#31. I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.
Sonam Kapoor
#32. Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
A.J.P. Taylor
#33. From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.
Doug Liman
#34. Slaves are not allowed to say no. Laborers may be hesitant to say no. But
professionals are expected to say no. Indeed, good managers crave someone who
has the guts to say no. It's the only way you can really get anything done.
Robert C. Martin
#35. I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
Don DeLillo
#36. Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
Ringo Starr
#37. Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them
consciously and unconsciously
your style will develop.
Dorianne Laux
#38. A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.
Nora Roberts
#39. If asking for a sign is asking for too much, how else are you supposed to truly believe on your own? The only other way is to believe what you are told, and that hasn't worked for her.
Chris Dietzel
#40. Jordan pinched the bridge of his nose. 'The only decent piece of trivia I know is that it's against the law to cross the state boundaries of Iowa with a duck on your head.
Jodi Picoult
#42. My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
Thomas Jefferson
#43. Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.
Northrop Frye
#44. The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.
Azar Nafisi
#45. I don't answer. I'm not staging a rebellion here. I stay quiet because I don't want to break down, and I learnt a long time ago that, sometimes, the only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.
Ally Carter
#46. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.
C.S. Lewis
#47. The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
Paulo Coelho
#49. The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.
Barack Obama
#50. There are three things I look for in a person. And you're the only person I've met in the world that has all of them.
Katie Kacvinsky
#51. The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
Edith Wharton
#52. Jesus was the only perfect person, so all other people God uses are sinful and flawed.
Vance C. Kessler
#53. I've changed, I'm nice to people and I'm not so self-centered. What I'm trying to do now is think of the other person. The only trouble is, I've found that the other person thinks only of himself.
Oscar Levant
#54. My face was growing hot, but I kept talking. "You're the only one who believes in me most of the time."
He shook his head. "You keep us going. Everybody knows that."
"But you're the one who keeps me going. You're what I'm fighting for in all this.
Tarah Benner
#55. I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself.
I'm the only one I would put through this.
Wheels and wings,
The ride is everything.
I'm all I've got.
I'm all I can take.
Another day has destroyed a part of me.
So far so good.
Henry Rollins
#56. No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.
CM Punk
#57. The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.
Slash
#58. The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
Bob Newhart
#59. I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
Dan Hill
#60. Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.
Antonin Scalia
#61. Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss ... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
Patrick Ness
#62. In fiction film, there are so many trappings - money, glory, champagne and supermodels - that attract the wolves. But in documentary film, there's none of that, so the wolves stay away. The only people who make docs are people who are curious about other people and just like making documentaries.
Marshall Curry
#63. The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'
Kirk Hammett
#64. I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.
Rand Paul
#65. '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
#66. Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters.
Steve McQueen
#67. I dropped my backpack, shrugged off my coat, and hopped on the exercise bike. Charging the batteries was usually the only physical exercise I got each day.
Ernest Cline
#68. 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
#69. You become free like you always dreamed, yet you realise that every land is different and you do not belong anywhere yet you live everywhere and that we all share the same lands except you seem to be the only one who realises this fact
Yolanda De Iuliis
#70. The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts.
We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.
Shams-i Tabrizi
#71. The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.
Paulo Coelho
#72. Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.
Andrew Card
#73. The only time the ghosts disappear from his eyes is when he's looking at you.
Julie Johnson
#74. The only way to deal with the future is to make sure the present is okay.
David Levithan
#75. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
Wendell Phillips
#76. A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace
#77. If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.
Linus Torvalds
#78. The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.
Paul Allen
#79. Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.
Garry Wills
#80. You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.
John Merrow
#81. And then she was kissing him as she never had before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand at her back and one in her long, sweet-smelling hair ...
J.K. Rowling
#82. 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
#83. The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.
Terry Lander
#84. My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food
the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record.
Gloria Estefan
#85. The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
Wendell Berry
#86. Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.
Michael Uslan
#87. Our people... blood is the only language we speak. I'm all out of words.
Kurtis J. Wiebe
#88. If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
Meister Eckhart
#89. The only way for government to express the needs and desires of Americans is if Americans speak up and get involved.
Michael J. Fox
#90. About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
Stephen Leacock
#91. He remembered the subjects well enough to know that finding the answer was a long shot. Still, it was the only shot they had.
Terry Goodkind
#92. Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#94. The only impossible task is the one which we fear to begin.
Debasish Mridha
#95. No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#96. The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent.
Judy Holliday
#97. 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
#98. If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.
Chapman Cohen
#99. I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized it was the only way in which he could challenge a sitting president then it becomes his crusade, is to create the primaries and to call for the people to rule.
Geoffrey Cowan
#100. I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
Pablo Picasso
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