O Quotes
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“One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical substances in the world. Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes—duct tape”
“One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.”
“One dream can deliver our planet from darkness to dawn, the question is, can you persevere past your breaking point for that dream!”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“One dream, will suffice a thousand nightmares.”
“One dreamer awake in love invigorates the whole world.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“One dreams all day as well as all night . . .”
Source: The Man With the Golden Gun
“One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.”
“One drink is too many, two is not enough.”
Source: Feet Of Clay
“One drink won't hurt.
So you keep telling me.
Yet, every time I have a drink, I wind up making out with you on the couch.”
Source: Not You Again!
“One drop cannot fill the ocean.”
“One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.”
“One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.”
Source: The Epistle to the Romans
“One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.”
Source: A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994
“One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.”
“One drop of kindness contains the cosmos.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.”
“One drop of the Lord's mercy is better than an ocean of the world's comfort.”
“One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.”
Source: Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies”
“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”
Source: Works of Victor Hugo: Notre Dame. The last day of a condemned
“One drunken night does not a madness make, Essex.”
Source: Heart of Stone
“One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!”
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“One dupe is as impossible as one twin.”
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues
“One eare it heard, at the other out it went.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
“One early morning last week, I walked through a terraced garden over the ocean, peeling a blood orange. It was a Taroco orange, or arancia rossa, brought from Sicily many years ago, its skin thin with a hint of blush, its flesh the color of a setting sun, its sweetness beyond that of any other orange."
Pursing his lips in remembrance, he went on, his voice rich with reverence and wonder. "The salt air on my lips, combined with the sweet juice, inspired this new effort. Try it for me. I'd love to know what you think."
Celina brought the dark chocolate-enrobed delicacy to her nose and inhaled, reveling in the juxtaposition of aromas. Biting into it, a complexity of flavors melted across her tongue. The intense aroma of blood orange with its singular sweetness... a bitter edge of dark chocolate with hints of tropical earthiness... a tart explosion of sea salt that intensified every flavor.”
Source: The Chocolatier
“One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.”
“One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier.”
“One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.”
“One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.”
“One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.”
“One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.”
“One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.”
“One effect of the civil rights struggle in the past ten years has been to convince a generation of young Negroes that their place in society is no longer predetermined at birth. We demonstrated that segregationist barriers could be toppled, that social relations were not fixed for all time, that change was on the agenda. The federal government reinforced this new consciousness with its many pronouncements that racial integration and equality were the official goals of American society.
The reactionaries would tell us that these hopes and promises were unreasonable to begin with and should never have been advanced. They equate stability with the preservation of the established hierarchy of social relations, and chaos with the reform of that unjust arrangement. The fact is that the promises were reasonable, justified, and long overdue. Our task is not to rescind them--how do you rescind the promise of equality?--but to implement them fully and vigorously.
This task is enormously complicated by the polarization now taking place on the race issue. We are caught in a vicious cycle: inaction on the poverty and civil rights fronts foments rioting in the ghettos; the rioting encourages vindictive inaction. Militancy, extremism, and violence grow in the black community; racism, reaction, and conservatism gain ground in the white community.”
Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.”
“One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.”
“One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.”
Source: Healology
“One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'”
“One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.”
Source: The Dying Animal
“One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“One either meets or one works.”
“One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.”
“One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.”
Source: Love and Courage
“One element you need for a great mix or mastering as producer. Is confidence in what you do.”
“One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“One emotion less and for me means one is 'less than a human being. Presence of every emotion completes us. For every negative emotions we do have inner positive resources. One must learn how use them constructively. Needs to become a practice through acceptance.”
“One emotionally-driven investment that causes massive losses is enough to keep you away from all investments for life.”
“One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.”
“One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.”
“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights of popular celebration cause ancient and forgotten avatars to stir in the depths of the human soul? This evening, in the movement of the sweaty and excited crowd, I am certain that I passed between the masks of the liberated Bythinians and encountered the courtesans of the Roman decadence.
There emerged, this evening, from that swarming esplanade of Des Invalides - amid the crackle of fireworks, the shooting stars, the stink of frying, the hiccuping of drunkards and the reeking atmosphere of menageries - the wild effusions of one of Nero's festivals.
It was like the odour of a May evening on the Basso-Porto of Naples. It was easy to believe that the faces in that crowd were Sicilian.”