#only

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#future #only #predict #shape #way

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#only #out #person #plan #rational

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#decided #even #know #minority #need

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#chain #civilized #civilized man #connection #country

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever. ↗

— Arthur Sullivan

#astonished #bad #developed #evening #experiments

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#cash #companies #government #only #permanent

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#class #classes #crush #each #extreme

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

#commonly #experience #fire #happens #held

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#clients #his #hitler #level #only

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#claim #how #i #make #many