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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.