All Quotes

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
‐‐ John Muir

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one's own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one's children.
‐‐ Ellen Key

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
‐‐ Julio Cortazar

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
‐‐ Ivan Pavlov

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
‐‐ Max Weber

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.
‐‐ Rachel Bloom

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
‐‐ Gary Zukav

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.
‐‐ Roberto Benigni

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.
‐‐ Yvette Clarke

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
‐‐ Vidya Balan

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
‐‐ Ted Nugent

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.
‐‐ Thomas John Barnardo

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
‐‐ Arthur Rimbaud

Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Only do what your heart tells you.
‐‐ Princess Diana

Only dumb people are happy.
‐‐ Courtney Love

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.
‐‐ Frederick W. Smith

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
‐‐ Stephen King

Only entropy comes easy.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

Only facing right-handers and not left-handers is hard for me.
‐‐ Asdrubal Cabrera

Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.
‐‐ Michael Dickinson

'Only Fools and Horses' was just one of those shows that could keep on going and going, that excited me. 'Hartbeat with Tony Hart' and 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' were my huge favourites, though. I used to love drawing and always sent work in to the show.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

Only fools are positive.
‐‐ Moe Howard

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?
‐‐ Guru Nanak

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
‐‐ Chi Chi Rodriguez

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
‐‐ Harry Browne

Only God can look at somebody's heart.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.
‐‐ Gene Robinson

Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.
‐‐ Pedro Martinez

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
‐‐ Tallulah Bankhead

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
‐‐ Stendhal

Only great people can make great products.
‐‐ Ruchi Sanghvi

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.
‐‐ Max Weber

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
‐‐ Max Weber

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.
‐‐ Michael Servetus

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
‐‐ Dietrich Bonhoeffer