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“No one can advise or help you- no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reasons that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. Don’t write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes a great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance. So rescue yourself from these general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty- describe all these with heartfelt silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds- wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure home of memories? Turn your attention to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.”
Source: The Call of the Twentieth Century: An Address to Young Men
“No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.”
Source: Look At the Birdie
“No one can appreciate science if he does not live in it.”
Source: Science, Faith and Society
“No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.”
“No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.”
“No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.”
“No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.”
Source: Complete Works of John Ruskin
“No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.”
“No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.”
“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.”
“No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.”
“No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.”
Source: The First Circle
“No one can be a good Christian who does not with holy zeal set out to know, delight in, and live by the Word of God!”
Source: The Bible Garden
“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.”
Source: On Liberty
“No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.”
“No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.”
“No one can be a sex kitten every day, and anyone who tells you that is lying.”
“No one can be a true Muslim and a true American simultaneously.”
“No one can be all things, as we all know.”
“No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.”
“No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person”
Source: On Writing
“No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“No one can be by himself or herself alone. We have to inter-be, connected with everyone and everything else.”
Source: Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
“No one can be certain whether our civilization will be able to cope with the ecological, demographic, and spiritual dangers it has caused or whether it will fall victim to catastrophe. So we cannot tell whether the present 'anti-capitalist', 'anti-globalist', and related obscurantist movements and ideas will quietly fade away and one day come to seem as pathetic as the legendary Luddites at the beginning of the nineteenth century, or whether they will maintain their strength and fortify their trenches.”
Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
“No one can be compared with you and so no one can refute this”
“No one can be cured of being who they are.”
“No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.”
“No one can be everything you want them to be.”
Source: Waiting For You
“No one can be free unless he is independent.”
Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method
“No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.”
Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method
“No one can be free unless he is independent...
In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.”
“No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.”
Source: EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature
“No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.”
“No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.”
Source: Parables for the theatre: The good woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian chalk circle
“No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.”
“No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.”
“No one can be happy in eternal solitude.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.”
“No one can be on top forever, Hey Hitler. So many names are in a race to beat you, and within very short time, history will give you a winner.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”
“No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”
“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”
“No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.”
“No one can be right about everything. All I did was put my faith in the inherent goodness of all living creatures. Or, at least, most of them.”
“No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.”
“No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna”
“No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.”
Source: Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of God. 2 pts