The Only Thing Quotes (page 40)

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• willingly
• planned
• willing

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. John Fowles

• fear
• effort
• firstly

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt

• happy
• age
• live happy

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. Oscar Wilde

• hurt
• things
• woman

Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me. Shelby Foote

• caring
• powerful
• power

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares. Dean Koontz

• learning
• honesty
• opened

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness. Audre Lorde

• die
• equality
• common

There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die. Bob Dylan

• night
• world
• voice

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it. Ray Bradbury

• growing old
• old
• finds

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. Oscar Wilde

• beautiful
• beauty
• consider

For me, beauty is always retreating from one’s grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed. Yukio Mishima

• eyes
• sick
• evening

I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness? Yevgeny Zamyatin

• sorry
• thinking
• evening

I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before. Nicholas Sparks

• life
• work
• giving

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life. Albert Einstein

• kindness
• evening
• caring

If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man. Candace Bushnell

• true
• mystic
• going

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. David Foster Wallace