#only

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. ↗

— Doug Larson

#being #brings #imperfect #joy #nice

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ↗

— Arthur Wing Pinero

#another #believe #entered #future #gate

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#dignity #each #face #go #heart

And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#assemble #because #could #enjoyment #even

All things are only transitory. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#only #things #transitory

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. ↗

— Plutarch

#better #contempt #god #him #only

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#always #been #born #brilliant #consciousness

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#belief #course #implied #language #manifests

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. ↗

— James K. Polk

#action #almost #although #chief #chosen