O Quotes
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“One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you know I'm fake, right?”
“One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.”
“One grew used to years, like garments. At least one knew where the holes and patched places were; one had learned not to strain threadbare folds past endurance. A new year felt stiff and semi-fitted as one tried to move in it without self-consciousness. It was like dresses that used to be made to allow for growth, too sturdy and voluminous and reaching to boot tops. Only time and hard use would accomplish the fitting, and I did not look forward to that inevitable process.”
Source: And Now Tomorrow
“One grey hair appeared on my head
I plucked it out with my hand.
It answered me: "You have prevailed against me alone -
What will you do when my army comes after me?”
“One group hug and we're out the door and back in the car that brought me here. We're on the road, and I can't believe I've gotten myself into this.
Maybe this is how every hero feels before they go into battle.”
Source: Infinity Son
“One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher rates of PTSD? Women who have escaped prostitution. That tells me that the war that men wage against women is actually worse than the wars they wage against each other.”
“One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.”
Source: Racing Through the Dark
“One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.”
“One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.”
“One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.”
Source: E.M. Forster: a Tribute. With Selections from His Writings on India. Edited, and with an Introd. by K. Natwar-Singh. Contributors: Ahmed Ali [and Others.]
“One grows out of pity when it's useless.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“One grows strong through physical exercise by exceeding the limits of prior exercises. This tweet is not about exercise.”
“one gud thing abut music if hits u fell no pain :p <3”
“One gun has more power to take life than a hundred surgeons have to preserve it.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.”
“One guy can't create a field, but you can get people thinking.”
“One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.”
“One guy, seeing that I was hungry, insisted on buying me a huge lunch and when I thanked him for his kindness, he simply said, 'Pass it on.' I liked this selfless concept - repay me by rewarding someone else entirely with a generous dollop of goodwill.”
Source: Round Ireland with a Fridge
“One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.”
“One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.”
“One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair.”
“One guy yelled at me, 'You stupid bitch, how do you live like that with nothing in your brain?' Well, that did it. I wasn't going to put up with that. Ok, I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working classes that get exploited. What kind of revolution is it that just throws out big words that working-class people can't understand? What kind of crap social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. Am I right, or what?”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“One guy yelled at me, 'You stupid bitch, how do you live like that with nothing in your brain?' Well, that did it. I wasn't going to put up with that. OK, so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working classes that get exploited. What kind of revolution is it that just throws out big words that working-class people can't understand? What kind of crap social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. (...) So that's when it hit me. These guys are fakes. All they've got on their minds is impressing the new girls with the big words they're so proud of, while sticking their hands up their skirts.(...) They marry pretty wives who've never read Marx and have kids they give fancy new names to that are enough to make you puke. Smash what educational-industrial complex? Don't make me laugh! (...) They're scared to death somebody's gonna find out they don't know something. They all read the same books and they all spout the same slogans, and they love listening to John Coltrane and seeing Pasolini movies. You call that 'revolution'? (...) Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes. And what is a revolution? It sure as hell isn't just changing the name on city hall. But those guys don't know that - those guys with their big words.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy
“One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain.
Because the mountain grass
Cannot keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”
Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
“One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.”
“One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.”
“One had children without knowing all that would be required to raise them, but a woman did whatever was necessary to make them behave and meet their needs. Then she prayed.”
Source: The Hamilton Affair
“One had had to put oneself right with the authorities of night: the day’s beauty was but a memory.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“One had rather have no opinion than a false one.”
“One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.”
“One had to be careful with elbows and boys”
Source: Fever 1793
“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
“One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
“One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.”
“One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.”
“One had to reach twenty-six to understand even in part the father one had.”
“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.”
“One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.”
“One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.”
Source: Persuasion In Modern English
“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”
“One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.”
“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.”
“One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.”
“One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
“One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.”