Only Quotes

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.