O Quotes
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“One aspect of the civil-rights struggle that receives little attention is the contribution it makes to the whole society. The Negro in winning rights for himself produces substantial benefits for the nation. Just as a doctor will occasionally reopen a wound, because a dangerous infection hovers beneath the half-healed surface, the revolution for human rights is opening up unhealthy areas in American life and permitting a new and wholesome healing to take place. Eventually the civil-rights movement will have contributed infinitely more to the nation than the eradication of racial injustice. It will have enlarged the concept of brotherhood to a vision of total interrelatedness.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“One aspiration and thousand aspirants fighting to make their place.”
Source: The Masquerade
“One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].”
“One at a time, each of the crow left the circle and hopped into the surrounding thicket, emerging with a small twig or a piece of dried grass. One by one, they placed their offering on top of the body, hiding the twisted wings and the open beak that lay glinting like an obsidian shard in the low sun. More and more crows began to arrive, each bringing, something to lay on the corpse, until the clearing was a sea of glossy backs.
You'd told me once that crows mourn their dead. You'd never told me how.
Each bird laid their gift atop the dead crow and flew off. I did not yet know that, sometimes, it is impossible to mourn in the presence of others. When all the crows had left their offerings, the crowd dissolved into the twilight.”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“One athlete does not make a team.
One singer does not make a band.
One actor does not make an ensemble.
One participant does not make a contest.
One employee does not make a company.
One stroke does not make a portrait.
One word does not make an essay.
One paragraph does not make a thesis.
One note does not make a symphony.
One instrument does not make an orchestra.
One finger does not make a hand.
One toe does not make a foot.
One lip does not make a voice.
One member does not make a body.
One cell does not make a being.
One memory does not make an experience.
One habit does not make a character.
One act does not make a destiny.
One day does not make a year.
One moment does not make a lifetime.
One man does not make a family.
One home does not make a neighborhood.
One clan does not make nation.
One tribe does not make a continent.
One people does not make a world.”
“One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One atom is as purposeful as our planet. What is in one is in the whole.”
“One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.”
Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
“One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."”
“One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.”
“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight. They stopped here and turned toward each other. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“One Autumn night, in Sudbury town,
Across the meadows bare and brown,
The windows of the wayside inn
Gleamed red with fire-light through the leaves
Of woodbine, hanging from the eaves
Their crimson curtains rent and thin.
As ancient is this hostelry
As any in the land may be,
Built in the old Colonial day,
When men lived in a grander way,
With ampler hospitality;
A kind of old Hobgoblin Hall,
Now somewhat fallen to decay,
With weather-stains upon the wall,
And stairways worn, and crazy doors,
And creaking and uneven floors,
And chimneys huge, and tiled and tall.
A region of repose it seems,
A place of slumber and of dreams,
Remote among the wooded hills!
For there no noisy railway speeds,
Its torch-race scattering smoke and gleeds;
But noon and night, the panting teams
Stop under the great oaks, that throw
Tangles of light and shade below,
On roofs and doors and window-sills.
Across the road the barns display
Their lines of stalls, their mows of hay,
Through the wide doors the breezes blow,
The wattled cocks strut to and fro,
And, half effaced by rain and shine,
The Red Horse prances on the sign.
Round this old-fashioned, quaint abode
Deep silence reigned, save when a gust
Went rushing down the county road,
And skeletons of leaves, and dust,
A moment quickened by its breath,
Shuddered and danced their dance of death,
And through the ancient oaks o'erhead
Mysterious voices moaned and fled.
These are the tales those merry guests
Told to each other, well or ill;
Like summer birds that lift their crests
Above the borders of their nests
And twitter, and again are still.
These are the tales, or new or old,
In idle moments idly told;
Flowers of the field with petals thin,
Lilies that neither toil nor spin,
And tufts of wayside weeds and gorse
Hung in the parlor of the inn
Beneath the sign of the Red Horse.
Uprose the sun; and every guest,
Uprisen, was soon equipped and dressed
For journeying home and city-ward;
The old stage-coach was at the door,
With horses harnessed,long before
The sunshine reached the withered sward
Beneath the oaks, whose branches hoar
Murmured: "Farewell forevermore.
Where are they now? What lands and skies
Paint pictures in their friendly eyes?
What hope deludes, what promise cheers,
What pleasant voices fill their ears?
Two are beyond the salt sea waves,
And three already in their graves.
Perchance the living still may look
Into the pages of this book,
And see the days of long ago
Floating and fleeting to and fro,
As in the well-remembered brook
They saw the inverted landscape gleam,
And their own faces like a dream
Look up upon them from below.”
“One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.”
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth;
One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps.”
“One axe cuts down a tree, but a dozen hands harvest its fruit.”
“One baby is a miracle. To be given two at once is a gift beyond words.”
Source: Two at a Time: Having Twins: The Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth
“One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.”
“One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.”
“One bad chapter in your life doesn't describe your whole life story.”
“One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!”
“One bad general is worth two good ones.”
“One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.”
Source: Succeed and grow rich through persuasion
“One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.”
“One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“One bad turn does not excuse another.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.”
“One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.”
Source: Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds
“One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'”
“One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".”
“One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.”
“One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.”
“One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.”
“One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.”
“One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.”
“One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.”
“One bears things because there is no alternative.”
Source: Sovereign
“One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“One beautiful day, a day with a clear sky and soft sun rays shining about to warm the hearts of both young and old, my special bird released one of its colourful, soft, feathers. The feather brushed my face and made my heart start beating hard, racing with a rhythm only this special bird could hear and understand. Despite the fact that I am not a bird, the pull of our destiny was strong and it forced this special bird to land and build a nest on me … a Cactus tree.”
Source: Cactus: Life Story and Fate, With an Unexpected Twist
“One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Roman Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together.”
“One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639
“One 'beautiful-mind' indeed weighs heavy over thousand creations of nature
and that is why from Socrates to Kabir, all hold such great importance.”
Source: The Pulse of Wisdom
“One beautiful soul is more precious than a hundred beautiful faces.”
“One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.”
“One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.”
“One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).”
“One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.”
“One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.”
“One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.”
Source: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time