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Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.