Quotes of: The-only-thing Keyword

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wr...

Samuel R. Delany

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, c...

William S. Burroughs

In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In t...

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences...

Eat, Pray, Love

nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses...

Bone Palace Ballet

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it ...

Siddhartha

It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could lose herself for a while in someone else’s life. Its funny how things like loans to pay back, a broken home and family, and a futu...

The Shoreline

Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangli...

The Sunset Limited

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep uppin...

Things That Never Happen

Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu

Shinobu Ohtaka

It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are easily controlled, and I suddenly realized that’...

Forlorn Passions

Time can only rob us of the things we can touch; it can't rob us of the things we feel.

Chips of Red Paint

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

Diggers

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

Faking It

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

First Principles

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Full Dark, No Stars

There’s only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.

Germinal

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Bryan Ferry

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The Alchemist

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Sputnik Sweetheart