- 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.
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- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're working on a television series, you only get a very short off-season. The scheduling of TV is relentless.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only eat spicy food.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of shows, things will just simmer and simmer and maybe never explode into the open, or only risk exploding into the open when it's clear that the series has gotten to its endgame. So I'm always impressed - but not surprised - when 'Scandal' just completely goes for it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
- Pink
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020