In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.
The only difference is that I'm a celebrity, and I'm shown to the world. Apart from that, I think I'm like most women my age.
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.
I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.
FBI Miami is one of the top five offices. Not only are they responsible for all the work that goes on here in South Florida, but they are one of my international offices, so they cover kidnappings or counterintelligence matters or counterterrorism matters in the whole hemisphere.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.
The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
When I am on E! for the 'Fashion Police,' I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
