O Quotes
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“One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.”
“One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.”
Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel
“One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.”
“One cannot do without a husband. As much need does one have to relieve herself, that much need one has for a husband. One can bear her husband going out of town for couple of days, but one cannot bear not going to relieve herself. One would look for whatever the need is. One will even search for a kitchen. How meaningless beliefs one has had in such a world?”
Source: Harmony in Marriage
“One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.”
“One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.”
Source: Sigrid Undset on saints and sinners: new translations and studies : papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Wethersfield Institute, New York City, April 24, 1993
“One cannot escape from the effects of karma, but one can elevate oneself from its effects.”
“One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.”
“One cannot escape the question by hand-waving at the past, disavowing the acts of one's ancestors, nor by citing a recent date of ancestral immigration. The last slave holder has been dead for a very long time. The last soldier to endure Valley Forge has been dead much longer. To proudly claim the veteran and disown the slave holder is patriotism á la carte.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.”
“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
“One cannot expect to travel far without faith.”
Source: Fire & Ice: The Elementals
“One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.”
Source: The Story of Art
“One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.”
“One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.”
Source: The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
“One cannot fall in love, really; one has to be in love.”
“One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.”
Source: The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office
“One cannot feel the true power of the universe while in the city and this creates arrogance, one feels as if one is stronger than the universe! Climb to the top of a high mountain and there you will take a more realistic mental position on the power of the universe!”
“One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.”
“One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”
Source: The Painted Veil
“One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“One cannot fix the few great figures of the early. In all periods exist, the great people, poets, writers, philosophers, and artists. If, anyone denies that, he or she denies, the entire reality including self too”
“One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.”
“One cannot fully respect themselves and their nature if they do not respect the world surrounding them.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“One cannot genuinely win a person's heart by words but by actions. so, similarly one cannot win anyone by bookish arguments about God but LOVE.
In order to represent the truth, one must be true, truthful, and trustworthy with his character, values, ethics, and morals.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.”
“One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”
“One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.”
“One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.”
“One cannot govern with 'buts'.”
“One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.”
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
Source: Best Served Cold
“One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it.”
Source: Transcendental Numbers. (AM-16)
“One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.”
“One cannot have a future if he does not serve God, the one and only God”
“One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.”
“One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.”
“One cannot have an honest discussion about the potential of nuclear power without fully acknowledging the ravages of the Hanford project. This would be tantamount to debating the future of our dying oceans without bringing up the topic of climate change.”
Source: Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
“One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.”
Source: Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
“One cannot have economic growth without security.”
“One cannot have everything, or the Gods would come to envy mortals. Is that not what happened to the Callatians? They built their towers too close to heaven, challenged the Gods with their accomplishments, and for it their Empire was destroyed?”
Source: Sword Catcher
“One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?”
“One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.”
Source: Emma
“One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!”
“One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.”
“One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.”
“One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.”
“One cannot help but be in awe when
[one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity,
of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century