O Quotes
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“Only then did I realize all the decisions I had made in my life that had made me feel like a winner at the time had also actually trained me to become a winner. Every time I had the courage to make the hard decisions.”
Source: Above All Else
“Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.”
“Only then does he have the chance to go beyond the limitations inherent in the various ego trips of Self 1 and to reach a new awareness of his true potential. Competition then becomes an interesting device in which each player, by making his maximum effort to win, gives the other the opportunity he desires to reach new levels of self-awareness.”
Source: The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
“Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.”
Source: Shopgirl
“Only then, in the quietness beneath, did the new feeling arrive. It was shame . Shame that she had quit her job, shame that she did not paint, shame that she had married Frank, shame that he was in love with someone else, shame that she had run to Anders for comfort, shame that he had discarded her, shame that Frank drank like he did, shame that they let Jesus die, shame that Frank had let her tear apart the whole apartment looking for her before coming clean about what he’d done, shame that she’d covered for him and told everyone that Jesus had escaped, shame that it was her secret now too, shame that she was too afraid to leave him when she said she would, shame that her mother was dead and she could not ask her for advice, shame that her mother didn’t want to be her mother enough to not be dead, just shame, shame, shame.”
Source: Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in love, and for his hurts, and in terrible pride.”
Source: Tigana
“Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.”
“Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.”
“Only they will be able to stop the lingering danger..." The President, Rorino's Defenders: Island Of The Hybrids”
“Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.”
Source: Fire and Hemlock
“Only thing going through my mind is stay loose and stay fast.”
“Only thing I am testing positive for is Pasta or Cheese.”
“Only thing that makes us fail in all moments, expectations.”
“Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada”
“Only thing worse than a tapper is a jiggler or a hummer. You find a man that does any of those things and you run don't walk away, because if you get locked in a room with him, eventually you're gonna have to kill him.”
“Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.”
Source: The Winning Fight
“Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events that actually make you laugh or fall in love. Only deal with the people who love you back, who are winners and want you to win too.”
“Only think of my being alive with a reputation!”
Source: Winslow Homer's Florida, 1886-1909: exhibition April 22 to May 29, 1977, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville
“Only think of this,” Hattie said, “you have a far better chance of taming Rayne than anyone has of bringing your disreputable brother to heel.”
Source: Earl of Every Sin
“Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.”
“Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.”
Source: Correspondence
“Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.”
“Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.”
Source: Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones
“Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“Only this much needs to be known: If you separate ‘I’ and ‘my’, you will have known all the scriptures! Then the whole universe will be known to you!”
“Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“Only this woman Sethe could have left him his manhood like that. He wants to put his story next to hers.”
Source: Beloved
“Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?”
“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.”
“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure...
Never was a country worth living in unless its sons and daughters were of that stern stuff which bade them die for it at need; and never yet was a country worth dying for unless its sons and daughters thought of life not as something concerned only with the selfish evanescence of the individual, but as a link in the great chain of creation and causation, so that each person is seen in his true relations as an essential part of the whole, whose life must be made to serve the larger and continuing life of the whole.”
Source: The Essential Theodore Roosevelt
“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.”
“Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.”
Source: The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
“Only those born without a destiny line upon their palm are called to carve their future with their own hands.”
“Only those exceptional at mimicking others feel at ease in the world.”
“Only those far away from the storm experience the beauty of the storm!”
“Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.”
“Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.”
“Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.”
“Only those intrepid souls who are prepared to join Yarnspinner on his perilous journey should read this book. We wish the rest of you a long, safe, unutterably dull and boring life!”
Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.”
“Only those live who do good.”
Source: My Confession: And, The Spirit of Christ's Teaching
“Only those looking for profit will be eager to hear from you and leave immediately.”
“Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.”
“Only those mistakes can't be corrected, which you don't want to correct.”
“Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.”