#only

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. ↗

— Harry Lorayne

#cat #concerned #curiosity #healthy #human

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good. ↗

— Courtney Love

#been #competitive #good #gotten #last

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#facts #knowledge #knowledge is power #knows #man

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#consciously #contemporaries #epoch #his #individual

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. ↗

— Jimmy Lyons

#day #lazy #man #only #tomorrow

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#makes #only #problems #solve #suicide

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it. ↗

— Margo MacDonald

#am #case #chamber #courteous #debate

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#above #both #complain #down #fact

Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#be true #call #caught #difference #different

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #had #i #joy #longer