I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
