Sole Quotes

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. (Carl Jung)
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. View quote
Marquis de Sade
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. View quote
André Gide
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. View quote
Federico Fellini
Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them. View quote
Edward Snowden
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. View quote
Edmund Burke
All those who try to go it sole alone Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. View quote
Robert Frost
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. (Robert Browning)
If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. View quote
John Harsanyi
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. View quote
Leo Burnett
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
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. View quote
Adam Smith
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 that is governed by shopkeepers. View quote
Adam Smith
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. View quote
John Burroughs
Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found. View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. View quote
Missy Elliott
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments. (Robert Toombs)
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected. View quote
John Adams
Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy. View quote
Kofi Annan
The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love of my country, which I adore. If I do not care whether I am sentenced to ten years imprisonment or to be shot, it is not because I am a fanatic... Since I joined the Catholic Church my sole object has been to reconcile my country to that Church which I believe to be the One True Church. View quote
Leonid Feodorov