If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
You requested me to lead the country again after 2017. Given the importance and consideration you attach to this, I can only accept.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
