Only Quotes

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

A person hears only what they understand.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.