The Only Thing Quotes (page 41)

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• giving
• life sayings
• life

More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee," I said. "more than any power in faerie, I love thee. Laurell K. Hamilton

• notice
• noticed
• expressions

You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression. L. M. Montgomery

• clever
• she
• feeling

For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt. Virginia Woolf

• talk
• go
• thing

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go. Jack Kerouac

• inspirational
• work
• inspiration

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working. Pablo Picasso

• learning
• may
• evening

But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself. Richard Adams

• love
• dog
• dog love

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings

• kindness
• faith
• promise

But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was that? What was it that he had faith in? It wasn't that nothin' would change. Which is what you might think, I suppose. He had to know better'n that. I've thought about it a good deal. . . And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I don't have no intentions of carvin' a stone water trough. But I would like to... Cormac McCarthy

• love
• life
• him

and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• hope
• fear
• little

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. Suzanne Collins

• lesson
• thoughts
• good

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do. Henry Rollins

• view
• guilty
• relatives

From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire (Seminar 7, 319) Jacques Lacan

• feeling
• lost
• now

..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive Keith Urban

• moving
• great
• greatness

But beauty is not the only thing that makes a woman attractive; indeed, great beauty is often somewhat chilling: you admire, but are not moved. W. Somerset Maugham

• hope
• spiritual
• different

...-and the only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different- you're stronger, you've seen more, you've felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency.(An Extra Smidgen of Eternity by Robert Rodi) Neil Gaiman