In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.
You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Only silence perfects silence.
The only club that could lure me away from Dortmund is Real Madrid.
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.
I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.
We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.
The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.
I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.
The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
