The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
I definitely don't want to only make music in the Christian genre. I want to expand and kind of dive into whatever else is in store. But that doesn't mean I don't love what I get to do as well.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
There's action only if there is danger.
My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.
Good things only can last so long.
You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.
If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
The only woman I have played in my career was my wife and I beat her easily! But she wasn't much good.
The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.
If we now plainly perceive that the passage of the blood from the arteries into the veins of the tadpole is not performed in any other than those vessels, which are so minute as only to admit the passage of a single globule at a time, we may conclude that the same is performed in like manner in our own bodies and in those of other animals.
