There were giant scale barriers to becoming a nuclear power, whereas launching a cyberattack requires only some coding capability, a laptop and an Internet connection.
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
Time is numbered only to man.
The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.
Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.
Only ugliness is obscene.
I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.
Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.
No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.
