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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.

Maybe we can have an all-female Marvel film. We've been talking about it. It's only a matter of time.

Quotes by Letitia Wright

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Quotes by Levi Strauss

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

Quotes by Lester B. Pearson

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

Quotes by Lester B. Pearson

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.

Quotes by Letitia Baldrige

There are really only two things I'm terrified of: water and cockroaches.

Quotes by Leslie Hope

I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

Quotes by Les Dawson

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

Quotes by Les Paul

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

Quotes by Lesley Gore

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for...

Quotes by Leroy Hood

I only focus on myself. I want to improve myself.

Quotes by Leroy Sane

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I...

Quotes by Leonard Susskind

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Leonardo da Vinci

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

Quotes by Leonard Cohen

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Quotes by Leonard Maltin

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Quotes by Leon Redbone

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.