"One and only" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upon the accursed cult of my person which absorbed the rest of my childhood and all my first youth. To become rich was henceforth my one and only aim in life. I believed I possessed the means of attaining my ends, and the thought of money was like a poison ...
— The Dangerous Age • Karin Michaelis
... considerations, the justice of which no one can dispute, one argument is adduced, which is regarded as furnishing a satisfactory demonstration from the fact. It is affirmed that there is one and only one conception, in which the non-being or annihilation of the object is self-contradictory, and this is the conception of an ens realissimum. It possesses, you say, all reality, and you feel yourselves justified ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant
... should think that any man who cared for a woman and who wasn't a moral and physical coward, would see it was the one and only ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... bird, simply, 'the Head of your House, and I have come to my temple to receive your homage. I am no parrot'—its beak curved scornfully—'I am the one and only Phoenix, and I demand the homage of my ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... are meant These hues so orient That with a sultan's tent Each tree invites the sun; Our Earth such homage pays, So decks her dusty ways, And keeps such holidays, For one and only one. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
|
