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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.