Sole Quotes - Page 24

• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Lying, Teaching

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• Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Thoughtful, Scary

  Edgar Allan Poe (2003). “Poems and Essays on Poetry”, p.142, Taylor & Francis

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• The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Freedom, Democracy, Constitution

  "Address of Acceptance". Address accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president, Washington, D.C., on August 04, 1924, p. 15,

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• God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Optimistic, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Compassion, Goal

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• To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

  Adam Smith

  Government, Sight, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 7 (1776). Other quotation compilations have this ending with "whose government is influenced by shopkeepers," but the first edition reads as above. See Napoleon 5; Josiah Tucker 1

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• Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.

  Che Guevara

  Years, Four, Sometimes

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• Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Life, Clue, Reason

  Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Meditation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.

  Mao Zedong

  Powerful, Fighting, Army

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.99, China Books

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• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Work, Cutting

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Beer, Shoes

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Grieving, Trying

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Patriotic, Heart

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

  Dorothee Solle

  Moving, Ego, Divinity

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• Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Loss, Men

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• During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.

  William J. Clinton

  Fathers Day, Jobs, Dad

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• The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Philosophy, School

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Chapter 14, 1513.

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• the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Boys, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.502

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• Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing
  This side of death,
  Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Spring, Heart

  William Ernest Henley (1901). “Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses”

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• My sole occupation is love.

  John of the Cross

  Life, Love Life, Occupation

  St. John of the Cross (2013). “The Essential St. John of the Cross”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

  Bertrand Russell

  Marriage, Views, Cake

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• Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rates higher and which lower, in short, what men should believe and strive for.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.

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• Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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