O Quotes
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“One could say Youth is power of country then my question is-who is youth?
sorry to say but you are not youth. Youth is your thoughts, your inspiration and Your initiatives. So take a step to make a change”
“One could say, that # Masons were raised right.”
“One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.”
Source: The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
“One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.”
“One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.”
Source: The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens
“one could starve to death on an enviable job — for mountain wind, for stars among pine trees, or the call of a wood-thrush to his mate.”
Source: Lost Island
“One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.”
“One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits”
Source: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
“One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or Counterpunch. In today's world it's not easy to suppress information. Technology has helped us a great deal.”
“One could use a pen to write a story, but it's a heart that bleeds the words.”
“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
“One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.”
“One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.”
“One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.”
Source: Kindness, Clarity, and Insight
“One country’s emigrant is another country’s immigrant.”
“One couple (they were college graduates) held long adult conversations with me in the big kitchen downstairs, until the husband went off to war. Then the wife who had been so charming and ready to smile changed into a silent shadow that played infrequently along the walls.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.”
“One Cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Poland”
“One cowboy is never enough.”
Source: Their Kidnapped Bride
“One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose things and whose goods? However many fishes one catches from the sea, they are his. After he catches them, he gives rise to its ownership, he creates a liability for it.”
“One creature's dungball is another's delight...”
Source: Deliberations in DUNG : It's A Beetle's Life of Excrementism and Humanism
“One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)”
“One cricket said to another -
come, let us be ridiculous, and say love!
love love love love love
let us be absurd, woman, and say hate!
hate hate hate hate hate
and then let us be angelic
and say nothing.”
Source: Selected poems
“One crime has to be concealed by another.”
“One critic complained to me that "Well, if you are right, we will have to rewrite the textbooks!" As if that were a bad thing ... [But], curiously, some of our most virulent critics are associated with NASA and the government. A NASA employee tells me that this attitude of opposition to impact threats is entrenched in NASA and is only now slowly beginning to change. When it became obvious to NASA decades ago that asteroids and comets are a serious threat, their employees were instructed by top government officials to downplay the risk. The government was concerned that the populace would "panic" over space rocks and demand action, when NASA couldn't do anything about them and didn't want to admit it. Plus, trying to mitigate any impact hazards would have used up funding they wanted to put elsewhere.”
“One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat.”
“One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.”
“One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?”
“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name”
Source: Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality
“One crucial thing to keep in mind as you read any Hebrew narrative is the presence of God in the narrative. In any biblical narrative, God is the ultimate character, the supreme hero of the story.”
Source: How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
“One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.”
“One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.”
“One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.”
“One culture doesn't fit all,
one morality doesn't fit all,
one faith doesn't fit all,
one reason doesn't fit all.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“One culture invents clay tablets.
Others- ink, scrolls, papyrus, print...
But somehow, all the classics are written by another.”
“One culture was not enough for me, I had to feel all the cultures of the world rushing through my veins filling up every molecule in my body - it was a burning desire - as urgent as the thirst of a person who hasn't had water for months. Hence, I assimilated as many cultures as possible and made them one with my existence.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“One cup exactly," I say quietly.
"Are you seriously whispering?" he asks.
I look away from my cup of cream just long enough to glare at him.
"Does the volume of someone's voice also affect how a recipe turns out?" he says.
I keep glaring at him.
"Should I sing to the cream?”
Source: Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice
“One cup of coffee together won't deprive you of your right to hate me.”
Source: Just Life
“One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.”
“One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.”
Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts
“One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!”
“One cure for the pain of desecration is the move towards total PROFANATION: in other words, to wipe out all vestiges of sanctity from the once worshipped object, to make it merely a thing OF the world, and not just a thing IN the world, something that is nothing over and above the substitutes that can at any time replace it. That is what we see in the spreading addiction to pornography - a profanation that removes the sexual bond entirely from the realm of intrinsic values. It involves wiping out one area in which the idea of the beautiful had taken root, so as to protect ourselves from the possibility of loving it and therefore losing it.”
Source: Beauty
“One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.”
Source: The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
“One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.”
“One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.”
“One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.”
“One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this training will not only teach specific skills such as how to change diapers or how to play responsively with toddlers, but will raise parents' self-confidence at the same time. The proposed cure, in short, is to reform and educate the people with the problem.”