All Quotes

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
‐‐ Joseph Wood Krutch

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
‐‐ Rene Magritte

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
‐‐ Daniel Libeskind

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
‐‐ Ravi Zacharias

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
‐‐ Rosa Luxemburg

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
‐‐ Nat King Cole

Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
‐‐ Ferdinand Lassalle

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
‐‐ David O. McKay

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
‐‐ Victor Ponta

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
‐‐ Fred Saberhagen

Only traumatised people want to be famous.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.
‐‐ Tom Freston

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
‐‐ Paul Celan

Only two journalists followed the team around.
‐‐ Just Fontaine

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who could be calling at this hour?'
‐‐ Michael Patrick King

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
‐‐ Al Stewart

Only ugliness is obscene.
‐‐ Mary Quant

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
‐‐ Ernest Mandel

Only useless things are indispensable.
‐‐ Francis Picabia

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
‐‐ Earl Derr Biggers

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
‐‐ Orson Welles

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
‐‐ John Edward Christopher Hill

Only votes talk, everything else walks.
‐‐ Dan Rather

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
‐‐ Daniel Ellsberg

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
‐‐ Natan Sharansky

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
‐‐ Aeschylus

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
‐‐ Mencius

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
‐‐ Artur Rodzinski

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
‐‐ John Ralston Saul

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
‐‐ Edgar Degas

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
‐‐ Thomas Bernhard

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
‐‐ Naveen Andrews

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
‐‐ Andrea Dworkin

Only when my 'Punktown'-based stories began seeing print did I demonstrate my proclivity for blurring the borders between horror, science fiction, and other genres.
‐‐ Jeffrey Thomas

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
‐‐ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
‐‐ Augustus Hare