O Quotes
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“One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?”
“One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.”
“One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.”
“One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.”
“One cannot skip time, but only transcend it through innumerable memories that exemplifies human understanding.”
“One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is.”
“One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.”
“One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!”
Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel
“One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.”
“One cannot stop such ones, who habitually split the hair; however, above that, some other adventurers even strike to create the hole in hair. Just smile to that than showing seriousness.”
“One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.”
“One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.”
“One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Source: The Shamrock Case
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.”
“One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.”
Source: Cheating Death
“One cannot trust the Wikipedia since its articles have each minute or continual variant content, in all subjects, which demonstrates the lack of qualification and vision. One may find the most authentic and reliable articles on websites that even have no editorial board.”
“One cannot truthfully profess a belief in a God, without having the ability to express the same sentiments towards other people around him/her. If you are going to say that you believe in a God that you cannot see, then you ought to believe in people that you can’t see, either! So much more faith and trust is required, to believe in an essence that you will never see with your own two eyes in this lifetime, than to believe in what you actually know can exist— other people. One must not be a hypocrite. During the times that I didn’t believe in people— I didn’t believe in God, either! During the times that I didn’t trust anyone— I didn’t trust God, either. The stuff of the soul, when it is genuine, will be reflected onto the way we think about, and interact with, other people! Don’t tell me you know a God who loves— if you don’t know how to love other people. Don’t tell me you have faith in a God, when you can’t have faith in another person. God is not there to show us that people can't be trusted. God is there to show us Himself, in everyone and in everything.”
“One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.”
“One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.”
Source: The Politics of Ecstasy
“One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.”
“One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.”
“One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.”
“One cannot undo what has happened. But the inexorable march of time offers the wise opportunities for redemption. I entreat you, do not escape. Stay in this world and do your karma.”
Source: The Oath of the Vayuputras
“One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.”
“One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.”
“One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.”
“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. Such a recoil is like that of a hair, made to grow out from the body, turning unnaturally upon the direction of its growth and growing into the body - a rankling, festering thing of hurt”
Source: White Fang
“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”
Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang
“One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“One cannot walk in such regions, consciously
without enlargement of thought. There are
heights and valleys which, to those who seek
them in a sympathetic spirit, are better
" seats of learning " than any school or university in the land ; there are days when the climber seems to rise into a rarer mental as well as visual atmosphere, and to leave far below him the crass cares and prejudices of commonplace life.”
Source: On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell
“One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.”
“One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.”
“One cannot walk with just the left foot or just the right foot, one needs both.”
“One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.”
Source: Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
“One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.”
Source: Jean Anouilh
“One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.”
Source: On Charisma and Institution Building
“One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.”
Source: Poison in the Pen
“One cannot write about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell without considering the footnotes. The experienced reader is conditioned to see footnotes as dry, as a way of grounding the text in reality. But footnotes are also an intervention, or intrusion into the flow of the text, and Clarke takes advantage of this figuring. In Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, it is in the footnotes that the world of the fantastic slips through to disrupt the meaning or common understanding of the tale told in the main text. The “explanation” they offer is of worlds slipping between each other, of uncontrolled contact with fairy.”
Source: Rhetorics of Fantasy
“One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.”
“One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period – the centuries that is, before Constantine, and two after, determine the boundary of our faith.”
Source: Sermons
“One capitalist always kills many.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.”
“One card read simply, “ God Bless Your Family,” in the painstaking and shaky handwriting of a very elderly person, and I marveled at the enormous and possibly painful effort a stranger across the country had made—to get the card and the stamp, to write the note, to mail it—just so I would not feel so alone. These were people with an emotional bandwidth, a depth and breadth of understanding, that had come from pain in their own lives.”
“One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and always does the best thing it can do under the circumstances. Consequently, if you are overweight, you may reasonably assume that the extra fat itself is your body's best adjustment to the circumstances you are providing.”
“One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.”
“One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.”
Source: Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910
“One caress and he left me feeling empty, one more time.”
“One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way--in a big way.”