Only Quotes

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.