#only

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#despair #eagerness #hope #often #only

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

#brings #commonly #end #his #journey

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#each #every #every time #fact #fighting

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#access #agencies #darfur #estimate #estimated

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ↗

— George Eliot

#every #itself #like #motive #only

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#help #language #only #poetry #prevent

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? ↗

— Black Elk

#bend #even #friend #going #heavy

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#avoid #choice #i #into #locking

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#course #emotion #emotions #escape #expression

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#alike #definition #differences #more #much