#the only thing

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. ↗

— Ovid

#dear #ever #his #increase #integrity

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#after #dead #i #nasty #only

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#being #failure #i #learned #like

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#i can #learned #only #the only thing #thing

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#chance #could #end #geometric #get

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. ↗

— Ray Romano

#audience #comedy #format #gratification #i

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world. ↗

— Ronnie Barker

#career #get #job #make #only

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#barack obama #chris #chris matthews #deficit #faster

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ↗

— William James

#beforehand #come #enough #faith #hour

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#comprise #comprises #east #east coast #elitist