O Quotes
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“One casualty of this "increasingly sophisticated" intersectional model, which focuses primarily on the power of discourses, is the neglect of the most materially relevant variable in many of the problems faced by women (and by many racial and sexual minorities): economic class.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“One cat just leads to another.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.”
“One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]”
“One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.”
Source: Brann the Iconoclast
“One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.”
Source: I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century
“One celestial quake and the timeline belonging to her had imploded in the heavens like a dying star. It was like falling into oblivion, she thought wearily, the tattered remains of her life floated—unanchored in a vacuum of what was and what little remained.”
Source: Solace From Shadows: Where Mortality and Eternity Collide
“One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.”
“One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.”
Source: The Heretic's Apprentice
“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”
Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.”
Source: Howard Zinn on War
“One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.”
“One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.”
“One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.”
“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.”
“One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.”
“One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.”
“One challenge with backward, traditional, and unduly religious people is that routine takes precedence over results. When that happens, backwardness is inevitable.”
“One chance is all we need.”
Source: Queen
“One chance is all you need.”
“One chance is enough… yes, I forgive fast, but I walk away faster.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“One chance. One night.”
“One night,” she says slowly. “For…” She doesn’t even finish the sentence. Sixteen-year-old Skye never said the word sex, and couldn’t refer to it without blushing. It appears that twenty eight-year-old Skye is the same.
“Fireworks,” I whisper, trying not to scare her. “With me.”
Source: Fireworks
“One chance--that's what she had seen she had--one flying leap that was really composed of eight thousand separate possibilities for falling, and she had taken that chance and come this far and been found out.”
“One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.”
“One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.”
“One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.'”
Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.”
“One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.”
“One changes their beliefs numerous times over the course of a lifetime; even those they’ve defended and supported for years.”
“One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.”
“One channel is the Stress Channel and the other is the Peace Channel. We really do have a choice about what we listen to. The Peace Channel can only be heard when we are present in the moment, when we are in the now. To tune in to the Peace Channel, all we have to do is be, experience, notice, and naturally respond to what is arising in the moment. To tune into the Stress Channel, we just have to start believing our thoughts again. [...] Eliminating stress is just a matter of tuning out the negative and tuning in the positive and just being, experiencing, and dancing to that music instead of the mind's chatter.”
Source: What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
“One chapter of your life is over. The rest of your story is up to you. Get started!”
Source: Something Gained: 7 Shifts to Be Stronger, Smarter & Happier After Divorce
“One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.”
“One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.”
“One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.”
Source: The power of money dynamics
“One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried, there usually are still opportunities left for initiating action in another sector.”
“One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.”
“One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.”
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
Source: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.”
“One Child's courage to survive.”
“One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”
“One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media.”
“One chocolate truffle had changed her destiny. Indeed, it was one of Celina's best- a silky cocoa powder-dusted truffle filled with raspberry-infused, dark chocolate ganache and enrobed with a couverture, a layer of rich chocolate that melted optimally with the warmth of the body.”
Source: The Chocolatier
“One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him”
Source: Four: A Divergent Story Collection
“One choice can summon the Divine… or awaken the abyss.”
“One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences”
Source: Divergent
“One choice can transform you!”
Source: Insurgent