Top 100 The Only Thing Quotes
#1. The only thing you need to
do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do
know the answer
Elizabeth Gilbert
#2. The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative ...
Edward Abbey
#3. Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
Barbara Sher
#4. They turned over the reception desk and the poor security guards did the only thing they could do. They ran.
Marlon James
#5. The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
Ben Horowitz
#6. A faint is one breath away from nothing. Only it is far worse than actually being nothing because the only thing left of you is the memory of having once been a something.
Rebecca Taylor
#7. She once told me that she loved me because I was the only thing she could hear. She can feel the vibration of the strings through the carved vessel of her instrument, but I am inside her. I am a song soaked into each bone of her secret body where the world has not been able to wander.
Simon Van Booy
#8. I don't give a shit how many guys you hook up with as long as you use a condom. What I care about is whether you said yes. That's the only thing that matters.
Daisy Whitney
#9. But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.
Shaquille O'Neal
#10. The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.
Paul Craig Roberts
#11. The only thing that matters in this game is the score, something hackers never quite understand, even when they think they do. If you can't make a shot eighty percent of the time and there's a penalty if you don't, you shouldn't try it. Ever. No matter where you are.
James Patterson
#12. Don't you know? We're connected by an invisible chain. It's very long, very light. But also very strong. It can't rust. Can't break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.
Ellen Hopkins
#13. Garrick: "The only thing I care about is fucking you so hard you can't see straight."
Bliss: Annnd ... aneurysm.
Cora Carmack
#14. The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.
John McEnroe
#15. The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
J. H. Oldham
#16. The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.
David Rudisha
#17. It really kind of looks like now that John Kerry is on his way to the presidential nomination. The only thing that can sink John Kerry now is an Al Gore endorsement.
Jay Leno
#18. At this point, Underwood turns to us and remarks that "the only thing more satisfying than convincing someone to do what I want is failing to persuade them on purpose. It's like a Do Not Enter sign - it just begs you to walk through the door.
J. Edward Hackett
#19. Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
Tom Waits
#20. The only thing you can lose is ... your connection to who-you-are.
Esther Hicks
#22. I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.
Audre Lorde
#23. The only thing that can tame and temper love is love. Also syphilis.
Jarod Kintz
#24. The only thing we really have to give to people is our love.
Art Hochberg
#25. The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.
Margaret Cho
#26. I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#27. So, there was this beautiful princess.
She was locked in a high tower( ... )She was stuck up there( ... )So the only thing was to jump.
Scott Westerfeld
#28. The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Scott McNealy
#29. I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Bill Veeck
#30. The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me
Oscar Wilde
#31. But maybe kissing was enough. Maybe kissing was the only thing that mattered, anyway. Maybe kissing could overcome the whole vampire/basketball thing.
Meg Cabot
#32. In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.
Roger Waters
#33. You are the only thing I've ever needed. The only treasure that matters.
- Seamus Tierney
Libby Bishop
#34. The only thing that belongs to us is our LIFE.Yet,we waste it in the pursuit of meaningless things that will never belong to us.
R.v.m.
#36. Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.
Travis Pastrana
#37. That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do.
Marisa De Los Santos
#38. In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.
Marina Abramovic
#39. I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.
Dakota Johnson
#40. The only thing you can do to make me that angry is to lie with another man" ~ Raphael, Guild Hunter, Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh
#41. I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.
Malcolm Bradbury
#42. When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
James Taylor
#43. The only thing I knew about him was that we had the same odd taste in music and that his butt looked really awesome in those jeans. There
Aileen Erin
#44. It isn't easy," is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can do
is say really easy things to each other.
Kris Kidd
#45. Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.
Marguerite Duras
#46. The only thing I had was Laika, the dog, whose homeless soul was howling through the cosmos. And my brother, the Minotaur.
Georgi Gospodinov
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.
Natasha Tsakos
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is
your absence, Alaric
Alyssa Day
#54. 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
#55. Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier?
Linda Fiorentino
#56. The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
Jacques Lacan
#57. Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
Evan Esar
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.
Rae Carson
#72. that's the thing with love - time doesn't exist with it. The only thing love counts is the heartbeats.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#74. 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
#75. The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.
Jodi Picoult
#76. I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.
Molly Ringwald
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Only the stick was his finger and the counter was the only thing keeping him safe from my all out crazy.
Airicka Phoenix
#80. The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
Tim Pawlenty
#81. The most radical conclusion to draw from this would be that your mind is the only thing that exists.
Thomas Nagel
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
Robert Browning
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.
Steven Tyler
#89. The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
Jonathan Galassi
#90. 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
#91. The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.
RuPaul
#93. 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
#94. In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
Russell Lynes
#95. The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Arthur Adamov
#96. Truth can be cruel. Yet it is the only thing of value.
Pierce Brown
#97. 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
#98. The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
Oliver Platt
#99. They're the only thing worse than family, other people's family.
The Crazy Ones
#100. 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
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