O Quotes
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“Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.”
Source: Collected Prose
“Only try to control the controllable”
“Only twenty more hours, yet already I am not here.
I will give myself to Fire.
The sun is shining. O homeland, O world, O cosmos!”
Source: Call Me By My True Names
“Only twenty-one mornings of planning your daily budget before your frugality becomes automatic. This is a myth. The number seems to come from self-help guru Maxwell Maltz’s speculation in his 1960 bestselling book, Psycho-Cybernetics. He was guessing how long it took people to adjust to self-changes such as plastic surgery. This is a concept with much longevity but little truth. A new action is difficult to sustain when the only driving forces are internal motivators of (a) wanting to do it, (b) knowing it’s good for you, and (c) wanting to get the study payment”
Source: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
“Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.”
“Only two can keep a secret if on of them is dead.”
“Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.”
“Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.”
“Only two dictatorships in whatever form and system rule around the world; one of the voters' selection and choice as a majority, another by the consensus of a few ones who dress in uniform, carrying weapons. The public stays the self-victimizing of both powers.”
“Only two entities in the universe know when you've done your best. One of them is you and the other one is not me. Judge not...”
“Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.”
Source: A View from a Broad
“Only two journalists followed the team around.”
“Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“Only two miracles are worth seeing: The miracle of loving And The miracle of forgiving.”
Source: Flores Chamas
“Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good home, a successful career, kind neighbors, a few great relationships. A wasted life.”
Source: The History of Sound
“Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
“Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.”
“Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.”
“Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.”
“Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology.”
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.”
Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.”
“Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.”
“Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who could be calling at this hour?'”
“Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics”
“Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.”
“Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.”
“Only two things I know about Albuquerque - Bugs Bunny should've taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I'll never be able spell it.”
“Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.”
“Only two things matter in the reproductive health debate: the medical opinions of doctors, and the will of women. Also, feminism is intricately connected with all aspects of our society, including health, but also labor and the economy. A woman can't be an equal player in our society until she has total autonomy, and that includes determining the destiny of her own body.”
“Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.”
“Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.”
“Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did.”
Source: The Confessions of Frannie Langton
“Only two unhappy people can be happy with each other, because they are dependent on the 'other' for happiness. Only an INDIVIDUAL relishes in his own presence, the 'other' is a hindrance to his freedom. He doesn't fit with the society, he stands out from the mediocre, he lives in 'totality' and celebrates in aloneness.”
“Only two years dead, and it was getting harder for me to feel…anything. I was starting to slip into the darkness. The numbness. And the worst part is that it wasn’t even scary. I was losing myself, and I didn’t even care. Then I met you, and at first I didn’t understand what had happened. What had changed. All I knew was that I wanted to be near you. Then you helped me with Addison, even though it nearly got you killed—I nearly got you killed—and I started to understand how special you are. But by then, you were getting serious with Nash. With my brother—one of few people in the whole world I still gave a damn about. So I tried to stay away. I tried so hard.” His voice cracked on the last word, and my heart cracked with it. Tears stood in my eyes, but I was afraid to let them fall. I was afraid to even breathe for fear of missing a single word. "But you kept pulling me back. You’re the brightest thing I’ve ever seen, Kaylee. You’re this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the dark by sheer will. And I always knew that if I reached out—if I tried to touch you—I’d get burned. Because you’re not mine. I’m not supposed to feel the fire. I’m not supposed to want it. But I do. I want you, Kaylee, like I’ve never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.”
Source: If I Die
“Only tyrannies understand the power of art.”
Source: Taking Sides
“Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.”
“Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it, 'As the beloved of God, we have no alternative but to love him in return.”
“Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.”
Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays
“Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.”
“Only undesirable aliens in the world are the fascists, fanatics, fundamentalists, nationalists and xenophobes.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Only unfulfilled love can be romantic”
“Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.”
“Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I’m a member of the human race.”
“Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.”
“Only useless things are indispensable.”
“Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.”
Source: Sexual Personae
“Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.”
Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady