In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
Technology not only allows grassroots conservatives like Palin to get their message across without the mainstream media's filter and become a 'force multiplier,' it also helps them topple candidates financially backed by the establishment.
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.
I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.
I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.
You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.
Only do what your heart tells you.
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.
It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
