Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
‐‐ Scott McNealy
Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
‐‐ Albert Camus
Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.
‐‐ Mary Ann Mobley
Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.
‐‐ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
‐‐ Alex Pareene
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
‐‐ Chick Corea
Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
‐‐ Jimmy Swaggart
Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.
‐‐ Paul Cook
Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
‐‐ E. M. Forster
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
‐‐ Russell Smith
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
‐‐ Denis Diderot
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
‐‐ Ameen Rihani
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
‐‐ E. M. Forster
Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
‐‐ Jean Paul
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.
‐‐ Rod Steiger
Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
‐‐ Judith Wright
Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
‐‐ Petina Gappah
Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn
Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
‐‐ Patrick Demarchelier
Only Americans can hurt America.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
‐‐ Novalis
Only an unscientific ignoramus would hold to the thought that nothing created everything.
‐‐ Ray Comfort
Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
‐‐ Susan George
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
‐‐ Karl Jaspers
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
‐‐ Novalis
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
‐‐ Curtis Carlson
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
‐‐ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
‐‐ Lee Trevino
Only bad writers think they're good.
‐‐ Harlan Coben
Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more.
‐‐ Richard G. Scott
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
‐‐ Isaiah Berlin
Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.
‐‐ Linden Ashby
Only be an artist if you have no choice!
‐‐ Marilyn Minter
Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
‐‐ Joan Jett
Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
‐‐ Tim Wise
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld
Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.
‐‐ Stacy London
Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland
Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
‐‐ Yvette Clarke
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
‐‐ Brian Tracy