O Quotes
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“Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.”
“Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.”
“Only someone who has been even for a brief moment within the gloomy walls of a dungeon can know how to solve those problems in which numbers form a terrible part of human misery.”
Source: The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
“Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.”
“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
“Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.”
“Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“Only someone wishing to disappear would ever strive to 'fit in'.”
“Only someone you loved could make you wear that kind of expression. Someone who had once loved you knew how to get to the part of you where the pain lived.”
“Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'”
“Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.”
“Only sometimes at night when I think that you live now and are somewhere, I shed tears.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.”
“Only sometimes in the evening, when they come home late from a party, it looks worn to them in the mirror... almost not wearable any more.”
Source: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
“Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.”
Source: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.”
Source: The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land
“Only sorrow comes from others and the world. Do not associate happiness with others, associate happiness with your own self. Sitting unoccupied under a tree, be alone, love and accept yourself, and be happy. Happiness without any outer cause is ecstasy. One is rejoicing from within. Bliss is
without cause. Bliss is within. The seeker should always give up delighting in others, and start delighting in himself.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”
Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
“Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us.”
Source: The Sound And The Fury
“Only Spartan women give birth to real men.”
“Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.”
“Only speak words that make souls stronger.”
“Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“Only stagnant people get stuck because they don't attempt to move at all.”
“Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.”
“Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit.”
Source: Theory and History
“Only stories and magic really endure.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”
“Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.”
“Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.”
“Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.”
“Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn't sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a gaggle of like-minded clones to back them up when they feign offense, which is merely a guise for their insecurity.”
“Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.”
“Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.”
Source: First Meetings: In Ender's Universe
“Only stupid men would want stupid wives!”
Source: Storm and Silence
“Only stupid people don't change their minds.”
“Only stupid questions create wealth.”
“Only successful businesses can create and secure jobs.”
“Only sultan is the servant.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“Only super-efforts count.”
“Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“Only survival and ambition makes one confront their own fears”
“Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.”
Source: Emirosy
“Only take someone's hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.”
Source: Strong opinions
“Only tears can hear the sound of pain
when warm blood reddens discolored stain”
“Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow.”
“Only tears of the damned can soothe the eyes of the cursed.”
Source: Worlds Collide
“Only Technology Can Remove Inefficiencies And Bring Consumer Delight In A Century Old Physical Automobile Retailing, Cheaper, Faster And Better Than Any Other Approach.”