O Quotes
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“One finds nobility in the oddest places.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.”
“One finds one's way only by taking it.”
Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
“One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'”
“One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it alone, one can make somebody so happy.”
Source: La dame aux camélias
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua franca that expresses something basic about our deepest humanity. It is variously inflected in its various provinces.”
Source: Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
“One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.”
“One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.”
“One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.”
“One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.”
“One fine day I stopped caring about what others think, and oh boy, I've loved every moment of life since then.”
“One fine day, someone will help you find, what you have lost inside of you awhile ago.”
“One fine day, time will mend your broken heart!”
“One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.”
“One finger up, and I'm out
Cause you ain't even worth two”
“One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“One first step of yours can set off a cascade of footsteps all across the world, as it did for Christ, as it did for Buddha, as it did for me.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“One fish in your net is better than ten thousand in the river.”
“One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.”
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.”
“One flower makes no garland.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“One flower may slay the winter
and meet death.”
Source: Selected poems
“One flub, one little mistake, could ruin everything.”
Source: Tess Embers
“One foe you must conquer in your quest to cross over to he other side is fear”
“One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.”
“One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.”
Source: The Root, the Rod and the Flower
“One foole makes a hundred.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“One foot after another; he tried to keep his mind clear. But a thought broke his concentration- Sophia. Once he left London, he would never be able to see her again. Nick did not identify his feelings for her as love, because he knew himself to be incapable of that emotion. But he was conscious of a rip in his soul, a sense that to leave her for good would mean the loss of the fragment of decency he still possessed. She was the only person on earth who still cared for him, who would continue to care, no matter what he did.”
Source: Lady Sophia's Lover
“One foot in each world, riding them simultaneously; expecting not to fall.”
Source: Delwyn of the Realms
“One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt.”
Source: The Doll
“One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.”
Source: Impulse
“One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.”
Source: Cryoburn
“One foot, then the other. Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more. Eventually you'll make it to the shower. And you'll make it to tomorrow and next year too. One step.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“One foote is better then two crutches.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of marriage, might in some particular cases have access to the sacraments.”
“One For ALL, One Million Percent, DELAWARE! DETROIT! SSSSSSMMMMMMAAAAAAASSSSSHHHHHH!”
Source: 僕のヒーローアカデミア 9 [Boku No Hero Academia 9]
“One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“One for whom bread- food- is not enough.”
Source: A Raisin in the Sun
“One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.”
“One forgets agnan (worldly knowledge) when he remains in Gnan (Knowledge of the Real Self, the Soul). Man can be in only one place.”
Source: Harmony in Marriage
“One forgets so quickly one's own youth.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American
“One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.”
Source: How Music Works
“One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?”
Source: The Heart of The Matter
“One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall”
Source: Heart of Stone
“One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.”
“One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.”
“one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.”
“One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.”
Source: Sammlung