„The only thing I want,
The only thing I need,
The only thing I choose,
The only thing that looks good on me…is you.“
The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You
Song lyrics, 18 til I Die (1996)
Bryan Adams1
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— Edmund Burke, buch A Vindication of Natural Society
A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
Kontext: I need not excuse myself to your Lordship, nor, I think, to any honest man, for the zeal I have shown in this cause; for it is an honest zeal, and in a good cause. I have defended natural religion against a confederacy of atheists and divines. I now plead for natural society against politicians, and for natural reason against all three. When the world is in a fitter temper than it is at present to hear truth, or when I shall be more indifferent about its temper, my thoughts may become more public. In the mean time, let them repose in my own bosom, and in the bosoms of such men as are fit to be initiated in the sober mysteries of truth and reason. My antagonists have already done as much as I could desire. Parties in religion and politics make sufficient discoveries concerning each other, to give a sober man a proper caution against them all. The monarchic, and aristocratical, and popular partisans have been jointly laying their axes to the root of all government, and have in their turns proved each other absurd and inconvenient. In vain you tell me that artificial government is good, but that I fall out only with the abuse. The thing! the thing itself is the abuse! Observe, my Lord, I pray you, that grand error upon which all artificial legislative power is founded. It was observed that men had ungovernable passions, which made it necessary to guard against the violence they might offer to each other. They appointed governors over them for this reason! But a worse and more perplexing difficulty arises, how to be defended against the governors? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? In vain they change from a single person to a few. These few have the passions of the one; and they unite to strengthen themselves, and to secure the gratification of their lawless passions at the expense of the general good. In vain do we fly to the many. The case is worse; their passions are less under the government of reason, they are augmented by the contagion, and defended against all attacks by their multitude.
„I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.“
— D.H. Lawrence, buch Lady Chatterley
Quelle: Lady Chatterley's Lover
„I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„The only thing I can talk about is the cold because it is the only thing going on today.“
— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day
„I only want the government to do the things that you can't do without the government.“
— Walter Reuther Labor union leader 1907 - 1970
Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 328
1950s, Television interview with Mike Wallace (1960)
„But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it.“
— Ernest Hemingway, buch Islands in the Stream
Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 21
Islands in the Stream (1970)
„This is the only thing I know.“
— Eminem American rapper and actor 1972
"Guts Over Fear"
2010s, Shady XV (2014)
„I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things.“
— Henri Matisse French artist 1869 - 1954
Je ne peins pas les choses. Je ne peins que les différences entre les choses.
"Henri Matisse: contre vents et marées : peinture et livres illustrés de 1939 à 1943"
1930s
„I only hate two things - living things, and objects.“
— Jerry Sadowitz Scottish comedian 1961
The Pall-Bearer's Revue (1992)
— Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969
Erika Jayne interview (Daily Mail) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5500765/Erika-Girardi-details-difficult-upbringing-successful-career.html (2018)
„The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.“
— Charles M. Schulz American cartoonist 1922 - 2000
Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
— Tom Hurndall British activist 1981 - 2004
Diary, (November 2001) Memorial Address by Jocelyn Hurndall (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20060108221709/http://www.tomhurndall.co.uk/memorial/Address%20at%20Memorial%20Westminster%20Cathedral%20_2_.pdf
