The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

We only have one life, and it is very precious, and there's a lot we can do, and there's a lot we should do.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

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