Sole Quotes

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

Punctuality is the sole of business.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.