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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.