Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Looking back at my life’s voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
Growth is the only evidence of life.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it. Life’s too short.
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
The underprivileged are the only privileged ones in the eyes of Allah.
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that’s backwards.
If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there’s no button being pushed… The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.
That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Win or lose, I always focus only on giving my 100%.
An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life.
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
Life’s all about choices. Everyone’s destination is the same; only the paths are different.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
At the end of the day, you can’t control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.
