#solely

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fit #i #never #notion #only

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#apples #arrogance #been #beings #benefit

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#community #housing #mall #must #putting

The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#forget-the-past #future #future-dreams #future-goals #futurist

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#get #lot #me #movies #other

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#caring #causes #crime #focusing #got

When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#brain #changed #club #comes #could

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#asks #because #buck #certain #focusing

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades. ↗

— Carmen Sylva

#fades #friendship #gratitude #like #photograph

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down