Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
‐‐ Fede Alvarez
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
‐‐ Clive Bell
Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange
Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.
‐‐ Amy Gerstler
Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.
‐‐ Hu Jintao
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
‐‐ Sitting Bull
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
‐‐ Robin Morgan
Only silence perfects silence.
‐‐ A. R. Ammons
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
‐‐ Martha Beck
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
‐‐ Mark McGwire
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
‐‐ Frederick William Robertson
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
‐‐ Allan Bloom
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
‐‐ Kristina McMorris
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
‐‐ Ram Dass
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
‐‐ Peter Bichsel
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
‐‐ James Shirley
Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens
Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
‐‐ Mason Cooley
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
‐‐ Hjalmar Schacht
Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.
‐‐ Raul Castro
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
‐‐ George Santayana
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller
Only the educated are free.
‐‐ Epictetus
Only the elites despise earning money.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland
Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men's wear. Resort and prefall push the number up to eight. A couple of promotional shows in Asia, Brazil, Dubai or Moscow can bring the count to 10.
‐‐ Suzy Menkes
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
‐‐ Gerry Mulligan
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
‐‐ James Dean
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre
Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
‐‐ Meister Eckhart
Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.
‐‐ Joseph Prince
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse
Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.
‐‐ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.
‐‐ Richard Ben-Veniste
Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
‐‐ Roy Orbison
Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.
‐‐ Isabella Bird
Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.
‐‐ Ellen G. White