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Only Quotes

On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.

The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.

I'm only as rich as my next film.

Quotes by Mickey Rourke

Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.

Quotes by Mick Mulvaney

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all...

Quotes by Mickey Gilley

People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.

Quotes by Michelle Wolf

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

Quotes by Michelle Yeoh

As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make.

Quotes by Michelle Yeoh

I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of 2016 and in the aftermath of the election.

Quotes by Michiko Kakutani

President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base.

Quotes by Michiko Kakutani

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Quotes by Mick Jagger

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Quotes by Michelle Shocked

I don't do CDs. I only do radio. That's the truth.

Quotes by Michelle Visage

There's only RuPaul.

Quotes by Michelle Visage

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

Quotes by Michelle Hunziker

We will deploy our men and women in uniform only where there is a need, and where their presence can make a genuine difference in ensuring public safety and an easing of the humanitarian concerns at our southern border.

Quotes by Michelle Lujan Grisham

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

Quotes by Michelle Bachelet

The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

Quotes by Michelle Dean

My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.

Quotes by Michelle Dean

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.

Quotes by Michelle Dean

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

Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Frequently Asked Questions

What subjects do the "Only" quotes on this page cover?
The quotes touch on horror as a film genre that blends experimental technique into the mainstream, geopolitical strategy around balance of power in Europe, and reflections on the empirical foundations of science and modern physics.
Is there a quote here about horror movies?
Yes, one discusses horror as one of the only genres able to weave abstract, experimental filmmaking techniques into mainstream cinema, noting that creating something genuinely spooky takes particular skill.
Does this page include anything about geopolitics?
Yes, one quote discusses the balance of power in Eurasia from an Anglo-American perspective, weighing the choice of aligning with a Western Europe against Russia.
Is there a quote here about science and physics?
Yes, two touch on this - one on how scientific concepts are drawn from empirical data, and another on how the "foundations of physics have started moving" as modern physics developed, unsettling older assumptions. For more thoughtful, reflective lines, see Life or Good.
Is this page more scientific and political than personal?
Yes, these particular quotes lean intellectual and analytical rather than personal. For more everyday, relatable quotes, try Like or Me.

You can also browse our Good quotes and Like quotes for lighter reflections.