Only Quotes

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.