Quotes 3241 till 3260 of 5418.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24 -
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
― Abraham Cahan
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
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