Quotes about Solely

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest. Votes: 3

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Votes: 3

I call him free who is led solely by reason. Votes: 2

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. Votes: 2

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God. Votes: 2

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. Votes: 2

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. Votes: 2

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Votes: 2

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. Votes: 2

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. Votes: 2

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press. Votes: 2

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Votes: 2

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. Votes: 2

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world. Votes: 2

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. Votes: 2

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. Votes: 2

For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance. Votes: 2

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. Votes: 2

For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue. Votes: 2

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Votes: 2

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. Votes: 2

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.' Votes: 2

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious. Votes: 2

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication. Votes: 2

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that. Votes: 2

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure. Votes: 2

My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Votes: 0

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control! Votes: 0

A mouse relies not solely on one hole. Votes: 0

No moral system can rest solely on authority. Votes: 0

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Votes: 0

Let every action aim solely at the common good. Votes: 0

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God Votes: 0

Never make a major decision based solely on money. Votes: 0

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor. Votes: 0

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education. Votes: 0

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind. Votes: 0

Our competition in life is solely with our old self. Votes: 0

Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man. Votes: 0

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Votes: 0

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself. Votes: 0

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Votes: 0

The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher. Votes: 0

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence. Votes: 0

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. Votes: 0

If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen. Votes: 0

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence. Votes: 0

You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better. Votes: 0

Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable. Votes: 0

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. Votes: 0

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. Votes: 0

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. Votes: 0

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher. Votes: 0

Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself. Votes: 0

Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it. Votes: 0

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades. Votes: 0

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process. Votes: 0

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as. Votes: 0

the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity. Votes: 0

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. Votes: 0

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know. Votes: 0

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts. Votes: 0

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it. Votes: 0

You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits. Votes: 0

The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself. Votes: 0

I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising. Votes: 0

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives. Votes: 0

These are used solely for Blood Rites. (Leo) Is that like special ed? (Susan) Votes: 0

to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe. Votes: 0

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me. Votes: 0

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy. Votes: 0

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested. Votes: 0

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. Votes: 0

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him. Votes: 0

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface. Votes: 0

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life. Votes: 0

I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota. Votes: 0

If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit. Votes: 0

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely. Votes: 0

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Votes: 0

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. Votes: 0

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us. Votes: 0

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling. Votes: 0

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. Votes: 0

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely. Votes: 0

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees. Votes: 0

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars. Votes: 0

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive. Votes: 0

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature. Votes: 0

Your self-esteem and emotional strength relies solely onhow you think and how you see things around you. Votes: 0

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship. Votes: 0

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas. Votes: 0

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera. Votes: 0

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note. Votes: 0

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men. Votes: 0

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. Votes: 0

I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear. Votes: 0

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one. Votes: 0

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. Votes: 0

The decision on the right balance between competition and investment can no longer be solely a national issue. Votes: 0

Being thy servant, O Mary, is a surety of salvation God grants solely to those He will save. Votes: 0

Humble leaders trust more easily because they realize that the world does not rest solely on their shoulders. Votes: 0

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals. Votes: 0

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. Votes: 0

Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community Votes: 0

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention. Votes: 0

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself? Votes: 0

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work. Votes: 0

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. Votes: 0

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say. Votes: 0

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish. Votes: 0

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw. Votes: 0

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable Votes: 0

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae. Votes: 0

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Votes: 0

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Votes: 0

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness. Votes: 0

You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart. Votes: 0

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. Votes: 0

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. Votes: 0

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well. Votes: 0

Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don't have to rush through it. Votes: 0

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life. Votes: 0

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous. Votes: 0

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. Votes: 0

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things. Votes: 0

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting Votes: 0

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. Votes: 0

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting. Votes: 0

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force Votes: 0

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them. Votes: 0

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. Votes: 0

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals. Votes: 0

You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions." - Loring Blackman Votes: 0

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States. Votes: 0

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. Votes: 0

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now. Votes: 0

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool. Votes: 0

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. Votes: 0

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack. Votes: 0

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility. Votes: 0

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments. Votes: 0

Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to. Votes: 0

You solely owe success and happiness to yourself. So why not make your inner-self proud of your daily decisions and actions~? Votes: 0

You solely owe success and happiness to yourself. So why not make your inner-self proud of your daily decisions and actions? Votes: 0

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. Votes: 0

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions. Votes: 0

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else. Votes: 0

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life. Votes: 0

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world. Votes: 0

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that. Votes: 0

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God. Votes: 0

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? Votes: 0

One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings. Votes: 0

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region. Votes: 0

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?" Votes: 0

If you get into business solely to make money, you won't. If you try to make a real difference, you'll find success. Votes: 0

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution. Votes: 0

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. Votes: 0

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake. Votes: 0

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. Votes: 0

I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity. Votes: 0

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you. Votes: 0

Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless. Votes: 0

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. Votes: 0

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth. Votes: 0

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. Votes: 0

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept. Votes: 0

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. Votes: 0

An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit. Votes: 0

... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork. Votes: 0

You can't succeed in any endeavor if your motive is solely selfish- feeding your ego, seeking recognition, fame, etc. Find a lasting motivation... Votes: 0

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business. Votes: 0

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him. Votes: 0

All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly ... Votes: 0

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power. Votes: 0

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. Votes: 0

The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al Qaeda as being restricted solely to 'hot' battlefields like Afghanistan. Votes: 0

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. Votes: 0

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service. Votes: 0

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense. Votes: 0

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. Votes: 0

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity. Votes: 0

And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. Votes: 0

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl. Votes: 0

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. Votes: 0

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what. Votes: 0

I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required. Votes: 0

The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present. Votes: 0

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things. Votes: 0

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red. Votes: 0

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason. Votes: 0

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing. Votes: 0

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that. Votes: 0

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children. Votes: 0

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching. Votes: 0

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep. Votes: 0

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity. Votes: 0

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity! Votes: 0

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility. Votes: 0

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character. Votes: 0

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables. Votes: 0

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry. Votes: 0

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels. Votes: 0

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. Votes: 0

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.... Votes: 0

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. Votes: 0

Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question. Votes: 0

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by. Votes: 0

So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things. Votes: 0

I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel. Votes: 0

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon. Votes: 0

...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right. Votes: 0

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps. Votes: 0

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. Votes: 0

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself. Votes: 0

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity. Votes: 0

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly. Votes: 0

We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us. Votes: 0

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. Votes: 0

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the plants themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project. Votes: 0

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. Votes: 0

There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken. Votes: 0

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds. Votes: 0

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. Votes: 0

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Votes: 0

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them. Votes: 0

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this. Votes: 0

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual. Votes: 0

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic. Votes: 0

It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson. Votes: 0

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. Votes: 0

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity. Votes: 0

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo. Votes: 0

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. Votes: 0

It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me! Votes: 0

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success. Votes: 0

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual. Votes: 0

The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake. Votes: 0

Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success. Votes: 0

Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration. Votes: 0

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection. Votes: 0

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind. Votes: 0

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards. Votes: 0

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell." Votes: 0

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? Votes: 0

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. Votes: 0

After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen. Votes: 0

Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely. Votes: 0

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels. Votes: 0

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself. Votes: 0

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader. Votes: 0

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that. Votes: 0

The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk. Votes: 0

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. Votes: 0

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. Votes: 0

What goes on in our heads solely determines the level at which we function in society, our physical health, and the degree of our mental and emotional stability and maturity. Votes: 0

I used to dream of medals and championships, but now I dream solely of a blue-eyed fighter who one day changed my life, when he put his lips on mine. . . Votes: 0

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength Votes: 0

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power. Votes: 0

My father had a similar saying. He said that in heaven there's a huge cake reserved solely for married people who've never once regretted getting married. The cake's never been touched. Votes: 0

But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are. Votes: 0

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid. Votes: 0

The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry. Votes: 0

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm. Votes: 0

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas. Votes: 0

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that's insanity. Votes: 0

I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong. Votes: 0

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself. Votes: 0

I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run. Votes: 0

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork. Votes: 0

If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home. Votes: 0

There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer. Votes: 0

Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn. Votes: 0

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms. Votes: 0

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing. Votes: 0

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen! Votes: 0

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. Votes: 0

...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government. Votes: 0

If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redundant. Votes: 0

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good. Votes: 0

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl! Votes: 0

Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared. Votes: 0

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. Votes: 0

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible. Votes: 0

Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable. Votes: 0

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Votes: 0

You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder. Votes: 0

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file. Votes: 0

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. Votes: 0

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. Votes: 0

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. Votes: 0

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species. Votes: 0

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief. Votes: 0

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey] Votes: 0

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities. Votes: 0

If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship. Votes: 0

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths. Votes: 0

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. Votes: 0

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days. Votes: 0

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone. Votes: 0

The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words. Votes: 0

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate. Votes: 0

One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible. Votes: 0

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. Votes: 0

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. Votes: 0

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. Votes: 0

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself. Votes: 0

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out. Votes: 0

With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away. Votes: 0

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect. Votes: 0

American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy. Votes: 0

When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development. Votes: 0

Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs. Votes: 0

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.' Votes: 0

What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply. Votes: 0

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason. Votes: 0

...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude. Votes: 0

I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely. Votes: 0

I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine. Votes: 0

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. Votes: 0

Cut out all these exclamation jokes. An explanation point is like laughing at your own joke. I'm going to delete you from my contacts if you keep sending solely emoji texts. You're a grown-ass man. Votes: 0

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts. Votes: 0

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty. Votes: 0

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts. Votes: 0

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are. Votes: 0

I focused solely on the sprints, dedicated my time there, got in the weight room, just really did everything I could to make sure I would be in the best position to run for gold. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0