O Quotes
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“One can read, talk, and think about poverty, but one can never understand poverty until one has experienced it.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“One can realize God through kirtan alone.”
“One can really love only once.”
“One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.”
“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
“One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.”
“One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.”
“One can repent even of having repented.”
“One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.”
“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”
“One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.”
“One can run away from anything but oneself.”
“One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.”
Source: Commonplace Book
“One can run out of everything, except love, because love is an endless stream.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“One can say everything best over a meal.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.”
Source: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
“One can say, symbolic love is blind; however, today, as a matter of fact, one's practical-love has eyes, to observe the status, financial stand, and beauty, to fall in.”
“One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.”
“One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between who we were and who we are and who we can be. Javert represents that inescapable, shameful past that forever haunts and persues one's conscience. Javert is the man of the law, and... There are no surprises with the law. The principle of retribution is simple and monotonous, like Euclidean logic. It's closed to all alternatives and shut up against divine or human intervention... Indeed, Javert represents the merciless application of the law, the blind Justice that in the end is befuddled by hope and the possibility of redemption without punishment.”
Source: Trust: Betrayed
“One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.”
“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”
Source: Architettura Della CittÃ
“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.”
“One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.”
Source: Tales of Power
“One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.”
“One can say, 'Teach me what you know,'
but the better request is,
'Teach me about what teaches you.'”
“One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.”
“One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.”
“One can see he's been very badly brought up. He wants licking into shape.”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“One can see how great the delight of heaven must be from the fact that it is the delight of everyone in heaven to share his delights and blessings with others; and as such is the character of all that are in the heavens it is clear how immeasurable is the delight of heaven.”
“One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.”
“One can see the results of those policies in hundreds of communities around my State. As one might expect, our largest communities - places like Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay - lost thousands of jobs as a result of those trade policies, most notably NAFTA and permanent most-favored-nation status for China.”
“One can see the world leaders, in two categories; to dictate others or to be dictated by others.”
“One can seldom look at terrain and think of it, "This is France," for instance, but in looking at the landscape south of Nogales I had the feeling unmistakably. The land itself was Mexican. It was dry, sandy, rocky, hot, and heavy with many kinds of desert plants. It had repose, dignity, and a sense of the fierceness of survival--not just human survival, but all survival, animal, insect, bird, and plant. And then, when the people of Mexico appeared beyond the train windows, this isolation, struggle, and heroism was clearly marked in their faces.”
Source: Places Where I've Done Time
“One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.”
“One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.”
“One can simply never take back the words he spoke.
And when you know you unintentionally did hurt someone, instead of letting it go or keeping a distance from that person, you can actually do something to mend the broken. That's the least we can do, when circumstances never are on our side; we can stick to our words and promises even if people change and fate ruins..”
“One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.”
Source: Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters
“One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.”
“One can speak best through stories. Things only come alive in this way. This is because such things are the children of our experiences. They are conceived during big events in our lives, born when we begin to reflect on those incidents and then grow with us as our appreciation for the memories that brought them into being also lives and thrives.”
Source: A Childhood Between Rivers and Mountains
“One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.”
“One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.”
“One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.”
“One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days”
“One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.”
“One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.”
“One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unlocks each door.”
“One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.”