All Quotes

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.
‐‐ Vladimir Kramnik

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
‐‐ Joseph Jarman

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

Only I can turn this country around.
‐‐ Silvio Berlusconi

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
‐‐ Robert Browning

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.
‐‐ Judith Butler

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.
‐‐ Larry Norman

Only in a novel are all things given full play.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
‐‐ Ferdinand Lassalle

Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.
‐‐ Tom Bissell

Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo Levesque is most people know me as JoJo. People that are familiar with me would still be like, 'Oh, that's JoJo.'
‐‐ JoJo

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.
‐‐ Don King

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
‐‐ Rafael Cruz

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.
‐‐ Pat Morita

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
‐‐ Martin Amis

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
‐‐ Branch Rickey

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
‐‐ John Major

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
‐‐ Manny Pacquiao

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
‐‐ Julio Cortazar

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
‐‐ Richard Pound

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
‐‐ Miguel de Unamuno

Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
‐‐ Patrice Motsepe

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
‐‐ Mahavishnu John McLaughlin

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
‐‐ George Eliot

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
‐‐ Liz Williams

Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen.
‐‐ Virgil Goode

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
‐‐ Robert Musil

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.
‐‐ Scott Turow

Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
‐‐ R. A. Salvatore

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
‐‐ Larry Elder

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.
‐‐ Mike Ferguson

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

Only in your imagination can you revise.
‐‐ Fay Wray

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Only individuals have ends and can act to attain them. There are no such things as ends of or actions by 'groups,' 'collectives,' or 'States,' which do not take place as actions by various specific individuals.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders.
‐‐ Norman Geisler

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
‐‐ Mark Twain

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.
‐‐ Todd Barry

Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
‐‐ Ignatius of Antioch