#the only thing

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it. ↗

— Ina Garten

#anything #carve #cooked #everything #fun

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christianity #false #importance #important #infinite

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning. ↗

— Maya Lin

#learning #life #mattered #money #only

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#am #hurt #i #i am #know

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#bad #bad taste #estimation #good #good taste

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#bear #bids #directly #fit #honor

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#makes #me #nervous #only #really

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#need #only #the only thing #thing #understand

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. ↗

— Ovid

#dear #ever #his #increase #integrity

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#because #boring #i #only #shy