O Quotes
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“One has no friend who has many friends.”
“One has no protecting power save prudence.
[Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]”
“One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.”
Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920
“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”
“One has no right to make up one's mind about the future in advance.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”
Source: Conversations with Graham Greene
“One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.”
“One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.”
“One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.”
“One has not understood until one has forgotten it.”
“One has nothing to lose by defending one's rights, even if one knows one cannot succeed. But the future is long and lies in God's hands.”
Source: La flor de lis y el león
“One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.”
Source: Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings
“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”
“One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.”
“One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“One has proceeded according to people’s understanding therefore he is bound (to the worldly life). The one who proceeds according to Gnani’s understanding; he is free.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.”
Source: Evidences of Revealed Religion
“One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.”
Source: Songbook
“One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.”
Source: Letters
“One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.”
“One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.”
Source: The magic mountain: Der Zauberberg
“One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.”
“One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.”
“One has the right to be wrong in a democracy”
“One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One’s own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental (nimit) in that. Really, the account is one’s own.”
“One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.”
“One has to accept life on the same terms as the public baths, or crowds, or travel.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.”
Source: The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman
“One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.”
“One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when you're inside because you're very constrained.”
“One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.”
“One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.”
“One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.”
“One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari); attaining a nir-maani state (a desire-free state that wants importance from others) is not enough. The egoism one has of being nir-mani is very subtle. The external ‘horns’ are worn down but the internal ones still remain. The inner ‘horns’ will cause an internal biting.”
“One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.”
“One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.”
“One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.”
“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”
“One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children," as Maria Sabina calls the magic mushrooms, or anything else for everyone. I find that certain substances reconnect me to a primal context of purpose that goes beyond identity and ownership. The writing-when I've worked it this way-is the kind of information you take back from dreams. Or it's hypnotic writing rather than getting off on some sort of pleasure trip or intellectual trip.”
“One has to be dull to feel happy amongst the dull!”
“One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.”
“One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.”
“One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. Thats very important.”
“One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.”