O Quotes
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“Only sheer exhaustion could summon the oblivion she craved. Every time they stopped throughout the day, she was so tired, she fell to her knees and dumped the pack. And during the pause in motion, she was so weary she couldn't think about the ruin she'd made of herself, the ruin she'd always been, deep down. No training, no learning about the Valkyries and their Mind-Stilling would help. Nothing would help.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Only shells collected from the sea could be crafted into necklaces to soothe anxious hearts. Every day, people crossed the threshold of their home. They settled into the nook of the guest room. They wept onto carefully curated shells, which would later be sanded and shaped into stars and worn as necklaces to soothe their suffering. There was an alchemy between the sea and the shells that her family had melded. Before her mother, the work had been her grandmother's. Before that, her grandmother's mother. Eight generations of Khanani women winding their way down to--- one day--- Yas.
She'd once eagerly painted each star before it left their home. Delicate birds. Flowers. Yas had loved the work. The art of catching and cutting and sanding and smoothing.”
Source: Forty Words for Love
“Only sick music makes money today.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
“Only sign of sanity is in mad humanity. Stand tall o brave, as an epitome of integrity.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Only silence communicates the truth as it is.”
“Only silence is great; all else is weakness.”
“Only silence perfects silence.”
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues
“Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.”
“Only sin in the world is the sin of division.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Only since meeting you have I rediscovered how simple it is to be happy”
Source: Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4
“Only since the collapse of the Soviet Union have we learned that the Soviets were in fact developing a moon rocket, known as the N1, in the sixties. All four launch attempts of the N1 ended in explosions. Saturn was the largest rocket in the world, the most complex and powerful ever to fly, and remains so to this day. The fact that it was developed for a peaceful purpose is an exception to every pattern of history, and this is one of the legacies of Apollo.”
Source: Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
“Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.”
“Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.”
“Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.”
“Only sinners need saviors.”
“Only six books from the age of the Roadmakers were known to exist: The Odyssey; Brave New World; The Brothers Karamazov; The Collected Short Stories of Washington Irving; Eliot Klein’s book of puzzles and logic. Beats Me; and Goethe’s Faust. They also had substantial sections of The Oxford Companion to World Literature and several plays by Bernard Shaw. There were bits and pieces of other material. Of Mark Twain, two fragments remained, the first half of “The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract,” and chapter sixteen from Life on the Mississippi, which describes piloting and racing steamboats, although the precise nature of the steamboat tantalizingly eluded Illyria’s best scholars.”
Source: Eternity Road
“Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.”
“Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.”
“Only six? Mon Dieu!’ Cleo ceased her pacing and whirled around to face the two Trackers, eyes narrowed, hands on hips. ‘I suppose this is all rather exciting for the two of you, non?’ Cleo’s usually melodic French accent was growing sharper and sharper in pitch with every word. ‘You…’—she nodded at Moss—‘finally get to see some action! And you…’—she turned her attention to Julian, hazel eyes narrowed—‘I know you loathed Iceland, and poof! here you are, back with your buddy, enjoying the sunshine!’
Julian and Moss exchanged exasperated glances.
‘Meanwhile, all of my hard work is going to waste. Do you know how difficult it is to manipulate a person’s lifeline? Hmm? To set up every single tiny decision and event so that they get to their death at the right time? And so that they die in exactly the right way?’ She glanced from one boy to the other as if daring them to contradict her. ‘There’s a reason we assign natural deaths and accidents to certain people and murders to others! This girl was supposed to die in an accident—now the lifelines of everyone around her have changed. Everything is out of balance.' She threw her hands up. 'Again!”
Source: Out of the Shadows
“Only six need be attempted.”
“Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.”
“Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.”
“Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted.”
Source: Eggshell Skull
“Only small men are incapable of seeing something greater than themselves”
Source: Marathon: Freedom or Death
“Only small men parade their learning, talk over their audience and air their superior knowledge. Only brutal men throw their strength about, and vain rich men display their wealth in ostentatious useless luxuries.”
Source: John Myer: A Collection of his Sermons and Writing, #1
“Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.”
“Only small minds want always to be right.”
“Only smart people understand Bitcoin and Ethereum, and that’s why most of the people in the world don't understand it, thus not involved in it.”
“Only smart warrior decides which battle to fight first, and when.”
“Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series
“Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods”
Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko
“Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.”
Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939
“Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“Only socialism promises the rule of the many and it is the only policy that applies the concept of democracy.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.”
“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.”
Source: Shadows on the Rock
“Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.”
Source: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...
“Only solitude means never having to say you’re sorry.”
Source: Open Season
“Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.”
“Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.”
Source: Notebooks
“Only some special people will see you in your purity. Go straight to the source to tell you who you are.”
“Only some stories leave an everlasting mark.
Choice.”
“Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace - oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812.”
“Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.”
“Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him. She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
Source: Victor's Blessing
“Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.”
“Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.”
“Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.”
“Only someone who cares could fake not caring so well.”
Source: The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley