He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could be made with light microscopy. So I saw that the diffraction barrier was the only important problem that had been left over.
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere.
I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.
How odd that the proponents of free expression think 'free' only applies to them.
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
The NFL goes to great lengths to protect what it calls 'the integrity of the game.' The same should be said for us as individuals. Integrity, the truthful interaction of word and deed, not only creates leaders in the locker room who are worthy of being followed; it is also vital for success at home.
It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.
The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.
'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.
