- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
- Nov 07, 2020
I only want to be myself.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
- Nov 07, 2020