Only Quotes

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

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.