Sole Quotes
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In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth… Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.
Adolf Hitler
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Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
William Cowper
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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
Charlotte Bronte
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The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Blaise Pascal
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Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Adolf Hitler
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Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.
William Shakespeare
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A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
H. W. Brands
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No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
Heinrich Schliemann
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries...
Edgar Allan Poe
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The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.
Catherine of Genoa
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The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.
Edgar Allan Poe
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
Edgar Allan Poe
