O Quotes
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“One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.”
“One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.”
“One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.”
Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later.”
Source: Defying Hitler: A Memoir
“One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.”
Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)
“One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.”
“One cannot plan for the unexpected.”
“One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.”
“One cannot predict a cold sky, much like a cold heart.”
Source: Diamonds and Stones: An Unlikely Story
“One cannot prevent abuse through discipline, when abuse and discipline feel exactly the same.”
“One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!”
Source: The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ
“One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.”
Source: Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology
“one cannot properly describe human life unless one bathes it in the sleep into which it plunges night after night and which sweeps round it as a promontory is encircled by the sea…Indeed, what one has meant to do during the day it turns out, sleep intervening, that one accomplishes only in one's dreams, that is to say after it has been diverted by drowsiness into following a different path from that which one would have chosen when awake. The same story branches off and has a different ending. When all is said, the world in which we live when we are asleep is so different that people who have difficulty in going to sleep seek first of all the escape from the waking world. After having desperately, for hours on end, with their eyes closed, resolved in their minds thoughts similar to those which they would have had with their eyes open, they take heart again on noticing that the preceding minute has been weighed down by a line of reasoning in strict contradiction to the laws of logic and the reality of the present, this brief 'absence' signifying that the door is now open through which they may perhaps presently be able to escape from the perception of the real, to advance to a resting-place more or less remote from it, which will mean having a more or less 'good' night. But already a great stride has been made when we turn our backs on the real, when we reach the outer caves in which 'auto suggestions' prepare—like witches—the hell-broth of imaginary illnesses or of the recurrence of nervous disorders, and watch for the hour when the spasms which has been building up during the unconsciousness of sleep will be unleashed with sufficient force to make sleep cease.”
Source: The Guermantes Way
“One cannot properly drink without self-deception: the lips have to deny the liquor that just passed down the throat. It was surely for the relief of drunkards that the Lord God did not write upon the stone tablets the commandment: thou shalt not lie. The word has to deny the addiction. Among the tribe of alcoholics, lying is a badge of honor - the truth is first an indiscretion, later an affront, and finally a source of despair. If you truly drink, you have to announce to all and sundry that you do not drink; if you admit you drink, that means you do not truly drink. True all-out drinking has to be concealed; anyone who reveals it is giving in, confessing to helplessness, and all that remains for him is weeping, the gnashing of teeth, and the 12 step program.”
Source: The Mighty Angel
“One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.”
“One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.”
“One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.”
“One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.”
“One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.”
“One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.”
“One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.”
“One cannot remember mother and forget God.”
“One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.”
“One cannot resist the lure of Africa.”
“One cannot rest except after steady practice.”
Source: The Best of George Ade
“One cannot review a bad book without showing off.”
“One cannot revoke a true happiness.”
Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.”
“One cannot say everything at once.”
“One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.”
“One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.”
“One cannot say that the petty bourgeois has never read anything. On the contrary, he has read everything, devoured everything. Only, his brain functions after the fashion of certain elementary types of digestive systems. It filters. And the filter lets through only what can nourish the thick skin of the bourgeois' clear conscience.”
Source: Discourse on Colonialism
“One cannot say with words what music says without them.”
“One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.”
“One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.”
“One cannot see each and every one of his faults until he attains complete awareness (poorna jagruti); and until then he cannot become faultless (nirdosh).”
Source: The Flawless Vision
“One cannot see from the clouded sky,
even the sky is close to the eyes.”
“One cannot see from the clouded sky,
even the sky is close to the eyes
it drifts below, one cannot see the wind also.
Nor can one see the trepidation of trembling trees that stand carrying the storm.”
“One cannot see from the sky lives playing with the desires.”
“One cannot see from the sky lives playing with the desires,
nor can one see the depths of wounds of the landslides
that occur after the leas run out of patience.”
“One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.”
“One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.”
Source: The Greening of America
“One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.”
“One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.”
“One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.”