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

Human, Light, Far

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul II

Marriage, Family, Act

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Humanity, Meaning

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'Rourke

Women, Yourself, Enjoy

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman

Education, Thought, Books

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
Roger Nash Baldwin

Control, Goal, Social

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus, Leader, Against

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
John Burroughs

Alone, Science, Old

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Lord Byron

Sincere, Motive, Scribbling

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide

Art, Serenity, Toward

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.
Adam Smith

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

Friendship, Happiness, Sex

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles

Sorrow, Ourselves, Cause

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.
Ellen DeGeneres

Crazy, Past, Purpose

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis de Sade

God, Cannot, Forgive

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Tell, Hearts, Sorrows

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
Missy Elliot

Love, Mother, Through

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Goal, Ambition

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
King Hussein I

God, Truth, Help

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe

Perfect, Sweet, Bliss

The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey

Equality, Death, Earth

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
Igor Stravinsky

Music, Time, Between

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa

Strength, Truth, Live

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.
Diego Maradona

End, Team, Makes

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art, Experience, Through

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
Frank Crane

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Will Cuppy

Good, Chance, Purpose

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
Bjarne Stroustrup

Become, Serious, Language

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Gustav Mahler

Everything, Create, Endeavor

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