- Me
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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.
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- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'd taken all the money from the register, we couldn't have paid an employee, much less the food or the rent or all that. It could have been a turning point. We could have given up.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
- Evaporates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
- Hiding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only God can turn our nation and the hearts of its people.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020