O Quotes
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“Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like they have been other-than-comf ortable most of the time. You can thank the muscle magazines for these persistent misconceptions, along with the natural tendency of all normal humans to seek reasons to avoid hard physical exertion.”
“Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”
Source: Earth
“Only people you trust can ever really betray you, Amber.”
Source: Hidden Trump
“Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.”
“Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care.”
“Only photograph what you love.”
Source: Pictures
“Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.”
“Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.”
Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29:
“Only pissed-off people change the world.”
“Only place yourself around people who love your strengths and are also safe to be vulnerable around - you'll need both power and vulnerability in womanhood.”
“Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!”
“Only poetry can address grief.”
Source: Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising
“Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.”
Source: The Monster Loves His Labyrinth
“Only poetry inspires poetry.”
Source: Society and Solitude and Other Essays
“Only poetry isn't shit.”
“Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.”
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“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Only poor men are brave; rich men have no need to be.”
Source: The Spirit Engineer
“Only poor men get hanged.”
“Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels
“Only poor people go to jail.”
“Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.”
“Only positive thoughts can inspire you to positive actions.”
“Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.”
“Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Only powerful currencies earn the right to have a symbol. Just imagine, one US dollar was worth 64 rials in 1939, right after World War II. And what is it worth today? Around 150,000 rials.”
Source: Tajrish
“Only powerful people have liberty.”
“Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.”
“Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.”
“Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.”
“Only preserve the love of God in your heart, and all will go well with you.”
“Only pretenders surrender.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.”
“Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.”
Source: The Secret Magdalene
“Only producers constitute a market - only men who trade products and services for products and services. In the role of producers, they represent a market’s supply; in the role of consumers, they represent a market’s demand. The law of supply and demand has an implicit subclause: that it involves the same people in both capacities. When this subclause is forgotten, ignored or evaded - you get the economic situation of today.
The man who consumes without producing is a parasite, whether is a welfare recipient or a rich playboy”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.”
“Only psychos and shamans create their own reality”
“Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.”
Source: Take today; the executive as dropout
“Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.”
Source: Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord
“Only put money in the banking system that you can afford to lose!”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“Only racists claim Trump is not a racist. They're trying to trick you into voting for him.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Only rainbows after rain...The sun will always come again.”
“Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.”
Source: The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity
“Only real love of the infinite will motivate you. While pain motivates, once we feel comfortable and the pain has stopped, we'll stop evolving. Love is a far superior spiritual vehicle.”
“Only real risk passes the reality of faith.”
“Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative.”
Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.”