Only Quotes

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.