Quotes of: The-only-thing Keyword

You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really thin...

David Rubenstein

The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is livin...

Love

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the pa...

Zadie Smith

The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand. That's when it's newsworthy. When the war ends, it's not newsworthy anymore; no one wants to think about it. Actually, the aftermath is the most impo...

Ishmael Beah

She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'Wh...

Grace Paley

In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly sad. Too funny, too explosive, too confusing. Heroes are uncomplicated. *This* m...

The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

The Finders

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

Fever

Some things aren’t meant for sunlight. The only place for them is in the shadows.

Bleeding Hearts

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Alfred Korzybski

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch Spinoza

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

Aleph

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Joan of Arc

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

Killosophy

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

Russian Winter

No... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.

Memories With Maya

I dream of things I know nothing about.

Only Ever Yours

In these modern times, the only sensible thing to be is nonsensical.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the script.

Bruce Glover