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.
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.
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In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
I've only ever kissed one girl: my Dorothy. We met in 1915 and married in 1918. She died in 1970.
There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
