#only

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#bottom #children #crazy #distinction #egos

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#being #hears #knows #offers #only

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#concerned #democracy #eat #educated #egypt

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#administration #agreed #been #both #broader

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#crazy #himself #his #i #impulses

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#complications #country #enough #i #know

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#grasp #only #possess

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#conceived #destiny #extraordinary #god #him

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cry #dirty #how #irish #know