#only

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#before #being #bone #born #brotherhood

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ↗

— Democritus

#battle #children #life #only #raising

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

#blindness #excepting #folly #gifts #give

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#child #crap #dodge #getting #grow

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#author #beauty #cat #cats #grace

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#already #been #being #comfortable #denial

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.' ↗

— Vin Diesel

#girl #goes #howard #howard stern #i

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#eye #finger #good #hit #need

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#dinner #dinner parties #first #first time #i

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#always #anybody #bob #copy #else