#only

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#dangerous #foolish #head #know #limit

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#although #been #being #charge #claim

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#best #failure #knows #life #only

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different. ↗

— Delta Burke

#big #black #black hat #came #carried

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#could #did #greater #little #made

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#evil #good men #good men to do nothing #men #necessary

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#faith #his #lose #never #only

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#board #city #early #elected #get

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#dead #fear #men #only #reactions