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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.