Quotes of: The-only-thing Keyword

Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother. Leon: My mother? Holden: Yeah. Leon: Let me tell you about my mother. [Leon shoots Holden with a gun he had pulled out under the table]

Blade Runner

The fox is answering the Little Prince's question. What does that mean . . . tame? asks the Little Prince. It means to establish ties. One only understands the things that one tames. Men have no more time to understand anything, they buy things all r...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Thus the vocation of the baptized person is a simple thing: it is to live from day to day, whatever the day brings, in this extraordinary unity, in this reconciliation with all people and all things, in this knowledge that death has no more power, in...

Instead of Death: New and Expanded Edition

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard ...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly in young brains; only these brains do not think as they should, do not amount to anything in the end and the hea...

The Bridge on the Drina

There is only one thing to do when you meet the Living God; you must fall on your face and repent of your sins. Repentance is bittersweet business; Repentance is not just a conversion exercise -- it is the posture of the Christian, much like 'tree' o...

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

In societies reduced to blur and glut, terror is the only meaningful act. There's too much everything, more things and messages and meanings that we can use in ten thousand lifetimes. Inertia-hysteria. Is history possible? Is anyone serious? Who do w...

Mao II

A monster crosses over into the everyday world. The mortals struggle and show great courage, but it’s no use. The monster kills first the guilty, then the innocent, until finally only one remains. The Last Boy, the Last Girl. There is a final battl...

We Are All Completely Fine

...but of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets...

The Complete Fiction

That’s the best thing about friendship. It is a gift that cannot be lost. Only thrown away.

Dragon Champion

The only thing that's ours to accept is the fact that we don't always get to know the answers.

Fixing Delilah

It was the list of activities thing. Like the menu with price, only I'm not the restaurant; I'm the meal.

Hot Head

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

The Book Thief

I can pull off anything; I have the height and the attitude. The only thing I can't wear is a leotard, but I can wear anything else.

Theophilus London

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Mike Nichols

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

T. E. Lawrence

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'

John Maeda

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Artificial Gods

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.

Results

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.

Skin Game

She’d never seen such a thing back on Grave; a flower that bloomed only at night.

Shine Light