#only

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. ↗

— Kenko Yoshida

#bonds #certain #him #i #know

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#behave #ceremony #feel #normally #obliged

Virtue can only flourish among equals. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#among #equals #flourish #only #virtue

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#exists #god #meets #only #only time

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ↗

— Mark Twain

#approach #born #could #eighteen #eighty

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. ↗

— Martin Amis

#down #grow #lamb #lie #lion

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly. ↗

— Karl Radek

#against #because #bourgeois #determine #does

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love. ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#could #find #guy #his #i

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically. ↗

— Dave Barry

#appear #assume #complicated #guys #just

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#could #delegate #dilemma #duties #either