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Only Quotes
On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
- Nov 07, 2020
People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of 2016 and in the aftermath of the election.
- Gin
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's only RuPaul.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will deploy our men and women in uniform only where there is a need, and where their presence can make a genuine difference in ensuring public safety and an easing of the humanitarian concerns at our southern border.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.
- Beach
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020