Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.
You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.
Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation.
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.
Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.
It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
I worked as President of House of Waris for a year and a half, and Waris is one of my favorite people. He is not only a talented designer but also a warm and genuine person and a pleasure to work with.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
