O Quotes
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“One hurt doesn't define all. Heal, stay positive, and better will come.”
“One hurts those whom one wants to feel one’s power, for pain is a much more efficient means to that end than pleasure.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.”
Source: The Hanging Tree
“One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.”
“One I love is taken from me, we will never walk together over the fields of earth, never hear the birds in the morning. Oh, how I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone away. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all my days.”
“One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it.”
“One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.”
“One idea can be transformative. One idea can change your career, your life, your community, your family, and even the world. I truly believe that each of us have at least one special game-changing idea inside us right now. The trick is, how do we get it out?”
“One idea can change the complete life of millions of people.”
“One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.”
“One idea lights a thousand candles.”
“One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.”
“One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”
“One ignorant of the plans of neighboring states cannot prepare alliances in good time; if ignorant of the conditions of mountains, forests, dangerous defiles, swamps and marshes he cannot conduct the march of an army; if he fails to make use of native guides he cannot gain the advantages of the ground. A general ignorant of even one of these three matters is unfit to command the armies of a Hegemonic King.”
Source: The Art of War
“One illusion is as good as another.”
“One imagined dankness, but every corner of this store was brightly lit—and why shouldn't it be? They sold vibrators and edible panties, not the Hollywood ideal of a seedy porn store.”
Source: Jarring Sex
“One imagines that similar scenes of joy erupted throughout the world wherever two or three faithful Catholics gathered together. In contrast, the election of Ratzinger was greeted with grief and horror by those heretical theologians and cafeteria Catholics whose heresies and backsliding equivocations had been condemned by the new Pope during his many years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. As usual, these wolves in sheep’s clothing howled in unison with the wolves in the secular media, uniting themselves with the avowed enemies of the Church in their hatred of the hero of orthodoxy who had forced them into retreat during his years as John Paul II’s faithful and fearless servant. In the war of words that followed the Pope’s election, the enemies of orthodoxy decried the new German shepherd as “God’s Rottweiler.” Although the gentle and saintly Ratzinger did not deserve such an epithet, it is ironically apt that the wolves who would devour the flock should hate the Rottweiler who had courageously stopped them from doing so!”
Source: Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith
“One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited.”
Source: Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
“One important aspect of the Gita which remains is that even though it presents to us some diverse paths as a way of life, such as action, devotion, knowledge and meditation, it does not impose any of these paths on an individual. Rather, it leaves the choice to the people, because the followers of all these paths are essential for the smooth functioning of the world, and any en masse inclination towards only one of them would jeopardize the society by causing an imbalance in its system. The Gita also recognizes that the path that one should follow is determined primarily by the free choice of man as well as his inherent nature, which can be interpreted as a genetic inheritance he is endowed with.”
Source: The Puzzles of Life
“One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.”
“One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.”
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
“One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)”
Source: The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins
“One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.”
“One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.”
Source: Reviving Ophelia
“One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.”
“One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.”
“One important thing I take away daily is that for all the talk about what youth are not doing - especially young people of color - I know there are many who do care about their future, who are striving to affect their world in a positive way.”
“One important thing that you have to remember is that the human brain is always looking for instant gratification and instant results which is why many of us end up spending more budget on making our office or store prettier rather than on marketing.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.”
“One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.”
“One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.”
Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens
“One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”
“One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.”
Source: The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film
“One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.”
Source: 17 February to 30 April 1801
“One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.”
“One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.”
“One in a while, you discover a presidential candidate who has the potential to change the political conversation, to elevate key issues in voters' minds, and disrupt and transform a tired Republican brand. Once in a lifetime, maybe, you will have an opportunity to support a transformative candidate who can do all of these things, and win.”
“One in All All in One-- If only this is realized, No more worry about your not being perfect (175)”
Source: Buddhist Scriptures
“One in eight plant species face extinction.”
“One in five American children are living in poverty, and yet, according to the Barna Research Group, 'half of all adults did nothing at all in the past year to help a poor person' and 'few churches have a serious ministry to the poor.' With such crying needs and such self-absorption among God's people, surely things have never been worse.”
Source: Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation
“One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.”
“One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.”
“One in four girls will experience sexual abuse by the time she is sixteen, and 48 percent of all rapes involve a young woman under the age of eighteen. It’s not surprising then, that in a society where sexual abuse of young women is rampant, many women never share their stories. They remain hidden and invisible.”
Source: Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse
“One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?”
“One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.”
“One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.”
“One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.”
“One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.”
“One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death!”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs