O Quotes
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“One act of Faith can turn a history of failures into a story of fortune in your family.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“ONE ACT OF KINDNESS MIGHT BE THAT GAME CHANGER FOR YOUR DESTINY AND GENERATIONS.”
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”
“One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .”
“One act of silent kindness is far greater than reading all the books by Naskar.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“One act of violence takes four generations to heal.”
Source: My Life on the Road
“One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.”
Source: Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three
“One action can dictate your whole future.”
“One Action is bigger than 1000 words.”
Source: It's Okay to Fail My Son
“One action produces a reaction; that is karma.”
“One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.”
Source: Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals
“One additional unit of income can do a hundred times as much to the benefit the extreme poor as it can to benefit you or I [earning the typical US wage of $28,000 or £18,000 per year]. [I]t's not often you have two options, one of which is a hundred times better than the other. Imagine a happy hour where you could either buy yourself a beet for $5 or buy someone else a beer for 5¢. If that were the case, we'd probably be pretty generous – next round's on me! But that's effectively the situation we're in all the time. It's like a 99% off sale, or buy one, get ninety-nine free. It might be the most amazing deal you'll see in your life.”
Source: Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
“One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.”
“One advances by standing on the shoulders of giants, but the ultimate goal is to find one's own vision.”
“One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.”
Source: I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings
“One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.”
Source: Uncivil liberties
“One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.”
“One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.”
“One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries”
“One advantage of being in a long-term relationship with someone whom exhibits a strong personality is that when caught in the conduit of their force field, the resultant propulsion propels us to see both them as well as oneself in clearer light, thereby, opening a person’s eyes for constructive personal change.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps in both theoretical and empirical knowledge. Adequate theoretical models extend up to about the fourth level, and not much beyond. Empirical knowledge is deficient at practically all levels.”
“One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.”
“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.”
Source: Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
“One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.”
“One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.”
Source: Effective Java
“one advantage of working backward is that the reverse perspective can sometimes reveal opportunities and problem-solving strategies that taking the usual course may not uncover.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.”
“One adventure after another. Awkward, ridiculous, and beautiful all at once.”
Source: Man Hands
“One adventure at a time”
“One after another, deliberate actions focused on Neil. He identified no reason. For fifteen months, he lived in harmony with the church and the community. An assault on him and his character began the past Saturday evening. Someone painted his portrait in blood on the barn wall and contrived evidence to implicate him in the murders.”
Source: Lethal Impulse
“One after another, Jake posed his riddles; one after another, Blaine answered them. When Jake turned to the last page, he saw a boxed message from the author or editor or whatever you called someone who put together books like this:
We hope you've enjoyed the unique combination of imagination and logic known as RIDDLING!
Jake: (in his mind) I haven't. I haven't enjoyed it one little bit, and I hope you choke.
Yet when he looked at the question above the message, he felt a thin threat of hope. It seemed to him that, in this case, at least, they really HAD saved the best for last.
Susannah: Hurry up, Jake!
Jake: Blaine?
Blaine: YES, JAKE OF NEW YORK.
Jake: With no wings, I fly. With no eyes, I see. With no arms, I climb. More frightening than any beast, stronger than any foe. I am cunning, ruthless, and tall; in the end, I rule all. What am I?
Blaine: (promptly) THE IMAGINATION OF MAN AND WOMAN.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“One after another, they offered an unvarnished view of the chaos engulfing the region, and Syria in particular. The trends were not good—opposition movements were becoming more extremist, Iran was doubling down on its support for Assad in Syria, Gulf countries were funding groups in Syria and Libya that were more militant than the United States wanted. Most of them argued that the United States was failing to shape events, though I noticed that the most senior correspondent lacked any hope that events could be shaped. Obama listened intently, asking questions as much as he offered his own opinions. When the session was over, I followed him into the Oval Office, where I quickly realized that the session had had the opposite of the effect I intended—where I heard a call to action, Obama had heard a cautionary tale. How could the United States fix a part of the world that was that broken, and that decades of U.S. foreign policy had helped to break?”
Source: The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
“One afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, “Look at the hips on her.” I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didn’t know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be “incorrect” on a woman’s body.”
“One afternoon, as Rose lay in a sweaty daze, teetering on the edge of consciousness, she made me swear that I would look after Linden, and I promised I would. I didn't expect to keep that promise, but maybe my,lie will at least do him some good in the meantime.”
“One afternoon, disgusted, bravo, you fall asleep.”
Source: Moosewood Sandhills
“One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.”
“One afternoon more than thirty-five years ago I set foot on a path that changed my life. I found a name in a book – Brigit – and a brief column of text about her. A spark was kindled and I knew I wanted more. This led me to a search for information about Brigit and connection with her that has never ceased. Though my understanding of her has grown and shifted since those first few paragraphs, I remain drawn to Brigit like a lamb to its mother.”
Source: A Brigit of Ireland Devotional: Sun Among Stars
“One afternoon they were in the garden, where Seb was telling her about the agonies of withdrawal he had suffered when he gave up cigarettes, when he suddenly broke off talking and grabbed Polly and kissed her. It was the first time anyone had done that to Polly. She should have asked Nina about it, she thought wryly, as Seb’s face met hers and their noses seemed to get tangled up. It was not much fun. She wondered whether to wriggle loose, but See was breathing heavily and passionately and seemed to be enjoying it so much that it brought Polly’s annoying soft-heartedness out. She stood there and let him lay his mouth against hers, and tried to decide if you kept your eyes open or shut them, and in the end she settled for one of each. What a funny thing to invent to do! she thought. What do people see in it?”
Source: Fire and Hemlock
“One afternoon Walter brought Izzy to the house for lunch and, pointing to me, he said to Izzy, “He’s one of your tribe.”
Dobkins lifted his head to look at me and after a few seconds said, “I don’t see it.”
“The mother’s a Jew,” Walter answered, as if he were describing the breeding of a mongrel dog.
“Then you are a Jew,” Izzy said, and sort of blessed me with his salami sandwich.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.”
“One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.”
“One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.”
“One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.”
Source: MetalMagic: Talisman
“One age is like another for the soul.”
Source: Selected poems
“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.”
Source: Culture and Value
“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.”
“One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.”
Source: Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost
“One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.”
“One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.”
Source: The Ascent of Man