O Quotes
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“One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.”
“One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.”
“One becomes rather desperate for visitors, when one has lost the the power to visit.”
Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter
“One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.”
Source: Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
“One bedrock tenet of the Oxford Group, however, would influence AA for years to come: an absolute opposition to medical or psychological explanations for human failings and thus a complete prohibition on professional treatment of any kind.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“One bee does not make a swarm.
One wasp does not make a nest.
One wolf does not make a pack.
One bull does not make a herd.
One dog does not make a litter.
One sheep does not make a flock.
One lion does not make a pride.
One branch does not make a tree.
One pebble does not make a hill.
One rock does not make a mountain.
One dune does not make a desert.
One spark does not make a flame.
One finger does not make a hand.
One color does not make a rainbow.
One leaf does not make a plant.
One flower does not make a garden.
One seed does not make a forest.
One drop does not make an ocean.
One cloud does not make a sky.
One star does not make a galaxy.
One world does not make a universe.”
“One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.”
Source: The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition
“One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.”
“One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.”
“One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.”
“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.”
“One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.”
“ONE BELIEF SHALL FULFIL A THOUSAND INTEREST, ALLAH HOO ALLAH, RAMADAN MUBARAK”
“One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution.”
“One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.”
Source: Inversions
“One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.”
“One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.”
Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“One believes in what one wants to believe in.”
“One believes others will do what he will do to himself.”
“One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.”
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.”
Source: Brave New World
“One beloved friend reflects the other in an open, trusting relationship.”
“One benefit of government work? Frequent flyer miles. Seriously, I get bumped up about every flight. Still not as nice as the director's private jet though...”
Source: Black Widow #4
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
“One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.”
“One big blow can hit and destroy any strong door in front of you. As for the 1000 feeble blows, they can’t even remove the cobwebs. Courage is the key.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.”
“One big disturbance, I think, between L.A. and New York is that New York is so condensed and together that it's very hard to be private there. There's a lot of constant interchange, people know what you're doing all the time. Here in L.A. it's the opposite, it's very spread out, unless you make a conscious effort to go someplace and look at something, you don't see it and we hear about it. So in that sense, it's a city where you can be very anonymous if you want to be, or even if you don't want to be.”
“One big dream and a burning desire are enough to conquer the world”
“One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.”
“One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.”
“One big reason is better than many little reasons.”
“One big theme for me is that we have got to move from an economy built on debt to one where we save and invest in the future.”
“One big thing I understand:
I know how to spit back with black venom
against the man who wrongs me.”
“One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.”
Source: The Poetical Works, Including the Drama of
“One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts; one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation].”
“One bird is still singing.”
Source: One Bird Singing
“One bird stirs
Many birds sing
A flock awakens”
“One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.”
“One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.”
“One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
“One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?”
“One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.”
“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.”
“One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.”
Source: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash
“One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.”