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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.
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- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020