There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it’ll move you to the temperature you need to get to.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
I’m just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. ‘Cause life ain’t that complicated. It’s only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen.
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
The only place that matters is first.
The only good political movement I’ve seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
