O Quotes
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“One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!”
“One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?”
“One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.”
“One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.”
“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.”
“One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.”
“One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“One can laugh in the face of death when he knows the One who holds his destiny.”
Source: Cleftlocke
“One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.”
“One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.”
“One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.”
“One can legitimately accentuate certain things, like a caricaturist.”
“One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“One can lie, but truth is more interesting.”
Source: Four Plays
“One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
deeply?”
“One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.”
Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
“One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.”
“One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.”
“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”
“One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.”
“One can live without books. Birds live. Cats live. Even the best of dogs live. But only humans can soar on the words from a book. Stories fling us high into the clouds with imagination. Poems make hearts weep with emotion. Science stuns the mind with wonder." She let her hands fall to her lap. "Without the stimulation of literature, you can live, yes. But your soul will be earthbound. A clod without imagination."
"I..." He blinked as if taken aback for just an instant before assuming his usual haughty expression. "I assure you, my lady, I live perfectly well without books."
"No." She shook her head, pitying him, this severe man who thought he wanted for nothing. "No. You breathe and you move, but inside, in your mind, there is only gray. You don't know what it is to soar.”
Source: No Ordinary Duchess
“One can live without candy, but one cannot live without bullets.”
“One can live without having survived”
Source: Blue Hour: Poems
“One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.”
“One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.”
“One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“One can love and hate in the same moment.”
“One can love any man that is generous.”
Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift
“One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.”
Source: The Cross and the Lynching Tree
“One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.”
“One can make a day of any size”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“One can make a joke, but one can't be one.”
“One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.”
“One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.”
Source: The rehearsal or Love punished
“One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.”
“One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.”
“One can measure the greatness of a nation and its moral progress by the way it treats its animals. Cow protection to me is not mere protection of the cow. It means protection of all that lives and is helpless and weak in the world. The cow means the entire subhuman world.”
“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it”
“One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.”
Source: Last writings on the philosophy of psychology
“One can neither agree nor disagree with a terminological proposal, as long as it is clear that it is just that: terminological.”
“One can neither understand nor accept and respect others' logic, view, and insight before overcoming its ego.”
“One can neither understand nor accept and respect others' logic, view, and insight before overcoming the ego.”
“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“One can never be 100% certain when it comes to family lineage. One must always keep an open mind, willing to go wherever the facts may lead.”
Source: One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants
“One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow.”
Source: Earth Wisdom
“One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good.”
“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”