After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.
I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
I only wore makeup when I went onstage.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
I only eat candy on Halloween. No lie.
I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.
I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers.
The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
