T Quotes
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“The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.”
Source: The Intellectual Life
“The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.”
Source: Oppression and Liberty
“The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.”
“The only hope that’s left is to cultivate our gardens and to become self-sufficient in everything that we do.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.”
“The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.”
“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”
“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that youre already dead.”
“The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre -
To be redeemed from fire by fire.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.”
“The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939
“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.”
“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.”
Source: Humility: The Beauty of Holiness
“The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert.”
“The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.”
Source: Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]
“The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.”
Source: Let's Abolish Government
“The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."”
“The only illumination came from the countless stars in the sky above. Not even the moon was there to witness the devastation.”
Source: The Breath Between Waves
“The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.”
“The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.”
Source: A new morality from science: beyondism
“The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.”
Source: Table talk
“The only implication of education is knowledge and the only implication of knowledge is implementation.”
Source: Science Behind A Perfect Life
“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”
“The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.”
Source: Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
“The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.”
“The only important statistic is the final score.”
“The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.”
“The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.”
“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
“The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.”
“The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.”
“The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.”
Source: The decline and fall of science
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
“The only impossible revolution, says Ceronetti in substance, one that is even inconceivable to reason, would be the revolution against machines- and this impossibility turns all other revolutions into a schizophrenic farce.”
Source: The Agony of Power
“The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.”
“The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.”
“The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.”
“The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.”
“The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.”
“The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.”
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity
“The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.”
“The only ingenuity I can see is Gaddis’ wherewithal in getting this brick published, printed, and hyped-up enough to win the National Book Award. Did he use coercion, bribery, blackmail perhaps? Did he have incriminating evidence on certain influential literary critics and talking heads, like pictures of them with farm animals or something?”
“The only!, inherent entailment for a materialistic society..Are the inexorable manifestations of internal vice and corruption and thus!, social and political erosion, decay and inevitable collapse!.”