#only

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#enough #good #life #living #miserable

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#effectively #enormity #finality #less #more

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#columns #ever #i #kept #me

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour. ↗

— Pat Cash

#hour #lasts #only #rubbish #sets

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#colors #future #general #good #happiness

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice. ↗

— Richard Burton

#justice #may #me #only #please

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people. ↗

— Kate Bush

#because #choosing #dancing #devoting #going

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#birthdays #children #hate #hated #i

I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave. ↗

— Claude Berri

#films #i #leave #make #move

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#bad #better #definition #escape #good