O Quotes
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“One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.”
“One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.”
“One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.”
“One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals - lastly, the tendency of hydrocarbons to unite together to form the more condensed material - suffice to account for the formation of these curious compounds. Moreover, this formation will be continuous because the reactions which started it are renewed incessantly.”
“One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.”
“One candidate who considered applying for the position explained his change of heart: “That job is like unprotected sex. It feels amazing at the time, but there is a good chance you will pay for it later. None of the benefits are worth the pleasure.”
Source: The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption
“One candle can light the way, thousands can turn night to day.”
Source: The Righteous Jardacia
“One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.”
“One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today.”
“One candle lights up a whole room and one human can light up an entire planet.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world.”
“One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the minds eye”
Source: High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way
“One cannot afford to be a realist.”
“One cannot all of a sudden deprive a society of its essence.”
Source: The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
“One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.”
“One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.”
“One cannot always bestow all manner of things upon everybody. To refuse a request for just cause is as praiseworthy as to grant a request that is worthy. It is for this reason that the "no" of some people pleases more than the "yes" of others. A refusal accompanied by sweet words and a civil manner gives more satisfaction to a true heart than a favor given with bad grace.”
“One cannot always marry the person one loves.”
Source: Sepulchre
“One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.”
“One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed in the Fertile Crescent before spreading, via Crete, Greece, Egypt and Italy to the forests of Europe”
Source: European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
“One cannot apologize for one's nature.”
Source: Icefall
“One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
“One cannot apply logic as an absolute where human beings are concerned. We are not beings of thought only.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
“One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.”
“One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages.”
“One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.”
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.”
“One cannot be a good person without gratitude, and one cannot be a happy person without gratitude. This provides a vital link between goodness and happiness.”
Source: Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
“One cannot be a part-time nihilist.”
“One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?”
“One cannot be able in life by fearing to live.”
“One cannot be afraid when they have nothing to lose.”
Source: Supernova
“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
“One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.”
“One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.”
Source: Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings about Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness
“One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.”
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
“One cannot be free, never, not ever, in an unfree world, and in the course of redefining family, church, power relations, all the institutions which inhabit and order our lives, there is no way to hold onto privilege and comfort. To attempt to do so is destructive, criminal, and intolerable.”
Source: Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
“One cannot be given too many or too frequent warnings against this negligent or even base way of thinking, that seeks out the principle among empirical motivations and laws, since human reason in its weariness gladly reposes on this pillow and, in the dream of sweet illusions (which lets it embrace a cloud instead of Juno), supplants the place of morality with a bastard patched together from limbs of quite diverse ancestry, which looks similar to whatever anyone wants to see, but not to virtue, for him who has once beheld it in its true shape.”
Source: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Paperback – January 1, 1981
“One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.”
“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.”
“One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.”
“One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.”
“One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.”