All Quotes

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
‐‐ Angelina Grimke

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
‐‐ Marc Chagall

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
‐‐ John Dryden

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
‐‐ Ronald Knox

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.
‐‐ Betty Hill

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
‐‐ Hugh Blair

Only men of character are trusted.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
‐‐ Anatole France

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
‐‐ Maxim Gorky

Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.
‐‐ Paul Buchheit

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.
‐‐ Friedrich List

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.
‐‐ Simon Mawer

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only on paper.
‐‐ Fritz Todt

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
‐‐ Johnny Miller

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.
‐‐ Mark Webber

Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.
‐‐ Darell Hammond

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.
‐‐ Steven Wright

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
‐‐ Harry Houdini

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.
‐‐ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Only one music comes out of me.
‐‐ Anthony Davis

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.
‐‐ Peter Tork

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
‐‐ Bodhidharma

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
‐‐ Greg Anderson

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
‐‐ Fay Weldon

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
‐‐ Zhang Yimou

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

Only photograph what you love.
‐‐ Tim Walker

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
‐‐ Alberto Giacometti