Only Quotes

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

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.