The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence
The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.
‐‐ Milos Zeman
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
‐‐ Lenny Bruce
The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.
‐‐ Dick Van Patten
The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
‐‐ Dick Van Patten
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.
‐‐ Norman Foster
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
‐‐ F. L. Lucas
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
‐‐ Pierre Schaeffer
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
‐‐ Simone Weil
The only 'Idol' music I've ever purchased is Phillip Phillips.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
‐‐ Herman Wouk
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
‐‐ Jean Anouilh
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
‐‐ Victor Papanek
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
‐‐ Zinedine Zidane
The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
‐‐ Robert Smith Surtees
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
‐‐ Yoko Ono
The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.
‐‐ Laura Marano
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
‐‐ Susan Sontag
The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
‐‐ Dalton Trumbo
The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham
The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.
‐‐ John Oates
The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.
‐‐ Eileen Myles
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan
The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
‐‐ Gene Simmons
The only journey is the one within.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
‐‐ Mary MacLane
The only joy in the world is to begin.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold
The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
‐‐ Dalton Trumbo
The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.
‐‐ Daniel J. Evans
The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.
‐‐ Michael Dirda
The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or not.
‐‐ Steve Albini
The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
‐‐ Dave Barry
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
‐‐ Maria Montessori
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
‐‐ Paul Watson
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
‐‐ David Niven
The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner.
‐‐ Mary Tyler Moore
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
‐‐ Benjamin Haydon
The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
‐‐ Eugene Jarvis
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
‐‐ Anthony Minghella
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
‐‐ Tony Robbins
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
‐‐ James Broughton
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
‐‐ Les Brown