Sole Quotes

505 Sole quotes by 402 unique authors

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism… — Joseph Campbell
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has… — Marc Bekoff
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because… — David Rakoff
You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been… — Ayn Rand
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no… — Naomi Wolf
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us… — George Orwell
Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved… — Ray Bradbury
But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. — Henry Miller
Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It… — Sarah Dessen
Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. — James Branch Cabell
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary — Julian Barnes
I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero. — Emile M. Cioran
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the… — Rob Bell
To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth. — Esi Edugyan
Oh yes. You’ve caught me. I confess. My sole purpose in life is to gleefully, willfully, maniacally destroy all of your precious chrome babies. — Jennifer Estep
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable… — Milan Kundera
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries — Edgar Allan Poe
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole… — Mary Wollstonecraft

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