Only Quotes (page 20)

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• inspirational
• inspired
• personal

Only a hundred years ago the idea that an order might arise without a personal Author appeared so nonsensical to you that it inspired seemingly absurd jokes, like the one about the pack of monkeys hammering away at typewriters until the Encyclopedia Britannica emerged. I recommend that you devote some of your free time to compiling an anthology of just such jokes, which amused your forebears as pure nonsense but now turn out to be parables of Nature. Stanislaw Lem

• strong
• strongly
• truly

Only the gentle are truly strong. James Dean

• lies
• courage
• different

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. J. K. Rowling

• death
• crying
• manly

Only against death does man cry out in vain. Malcolm Lowry

• motivational
• positive
• giving

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. Ellis Peters

• count
• counted
• counts

Only super-efforts count. G. I. Gurdjieff

• best
• trust
• genius

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. Max Beerbohm

• joy
• death
• die

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. Theodore Roosevelt

• path
• putting
• puts

Only the weak are put on paths without peril. Herman Hesse

• poetry
• justice
• doing

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises... H. P. Lovecraft

• feeling
• difficult
• time

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. Anton Chekhov

• life
• funny
• thinking

only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ... Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• men
• jerry
• count

Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry. Janet Evanovich

• disappointment
• experience
• waiting

Only twice in my nearly fifty years of friendship with David Belasco did he ever disappoint me; and I am glad that experience came early. When I was perhaps seven or eight years old, he promised me, many months before my birthday, that he would give me a pony. What boy would nurse that promise to his bosom for any number of months? When the 12th of August dawned, I was downstairs early, I think before anyone else was up. I looked out at the barnyard. No pony. I waited all day. No pony. I said... Cecil B. DeMille

• exhaustive
• exhausted
• exhausting

...only the exhaustive can be truly interesting. Thomas Mann