- Does
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- 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
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only like to play football.
- Calmly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be clear that I only share passages from the Bible as a gesture of love.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
- Bursting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
- Hanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.
- Nov 07, 2020