O Quotes
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“One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.”
“One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.”
“One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us”
Source: The Fire Next Time
“One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.”
“One is said to be enlightened with the Right Knowledge when his conduct is appropriate in any situation.”
“One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.”
“One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.”
Source: The White Witch
“One is shy of asking men under sentence what they have been sentenced for; and in the same way it is awkward to ask very rich people what they want so much money for, why they make such poor use of their wealth, why they don't give it up, even when they see in it their unhappiness; and if they begin a conversation about it themselves, it is usually embarrassing, awkward, and long.”
“One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.”
“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”
“One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
“One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.”
“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.”
Source: Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr
“One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.”
“One is suitable and selected for another to become the victim and targeted. The life circles and rounds with such motives and intentions”
“One is surprised by the passage of time and the distance travelled, but one may not go back.”
Source: Dust tracks on a road
“One is taller. The other is shorter.”
“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.”
Source: The Finishing School
“One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!”
Source: The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon
“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”
“One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.”
Source: A year in the fields: selections from the writings of John Burroughs
“One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.”
“One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate well to a visual medium. Two, these things that I write, or want to make, are an expression of - I don't want to say darker instincts, but let's say darker instincts. But that's why I'm a writer.”
“One is that if women’s sexuality in Africa wasn’t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren’t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn’t have a pandemic.”
“One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.”
“One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.”
“One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.”
“One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.”
“One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.”
“One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them.”
“One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera, a Chaitanya, dancing and singing, losing themselves completely in the act. When Meera is dancing there is only dance, there is no Meera; the dancer is completely merged into the dance. When Chaitanya is singing and dancing there is no Chaitanya; he has become one with the act.”
“One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.”
“One is to get out of our echo chambers and sort of follow up people on Twitter and Facebook who do not agree with you. Make sure that you have friends disagree with you profoundly because if you have a friend who voted for somebody else.”
“One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang around and the more you become aware not only of what "reputation" is for other writers, but also what your own reputation is, you become aware that it's much more complicated than the conventional media would have you believe.”
“One is too small a number to achieve greatness.”
Source: The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team
“One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.”
Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“One is very crazy when in love.”
“One is very weak when one is in love.”
“One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.”
Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”
Source: The World at Night: A Novel
“One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“One is what one remembers: no more, no less.”
“One is wise only as much as the wisdom of one's books, and therefore one should sell all he has and buy books.”
“One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.”
“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.”
“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.”
“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.”
“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”