O Quotes
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“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”
“One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.”
“One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking.”
Source: Pleasures of Walking
“One kind word can change the lives of millions of people and make people love and create a better World.”
“One king, one law, one faith.”
“One kiss did not create a lifetime relationship. One moment did not define everything that would happen in the future.”
Source: The Measure of the Magic
“One kiss, two lips. One love, two bodies. (Un baiser, ce sont deux lèvres. - Un amour, ce sont deux corps.)”
“One kiss, I was totally hooked.”
Source: Tricks
“One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.”
“One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark "S" that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman's alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.”
Source: Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
“One knock is not enough to open the door.”
“One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.”
Source: Enchantment and sorrow: the autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
“One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.”
“One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.”
“One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances.”
“One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.”
Source: MURDER IN THREE ACTS
“One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.”
Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
“One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.”
“One knows what being in love is like and it is a very terrible thing.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.”
“One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.”
Source: Poems of early and after years ... Illustrated by E. Leutze
“One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.”
“One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People" for class, I really just felt a home in her work. I had little guilt about the theft at the time. I sucked in my stomach and shoved the book into my pants. It's very big. I can still feel how it cut into my body in the most exciting way. Clearly, I don't feel guilt-free about this crime anymore - I wouldn't be mentioning here, looking for some absolution if I did.”
“One last place we haven’t checked. There’s a closet out here on the landing you can sleep in, if you can fit.”
“A closet?”
“Yeah, like Harry Potter.” “Harry Potter lived under the stairs.”
Source: Burn the Dark
“One last point here, and I’ll give you this as a caveat. When Carefree Scamps let their guard down and find themselves telling others about their life, they’re invariably not believed. To a Carefree Scamp, his/her life is just normal talk. To a Rag, Tag & Bobtail, who hasn’t yet lived, it’s unbelievable. When I was living on the Algarve I once had someone say to me, “Is there anywhere you haven’t been? You reckon you’ve lived here for two or three years, and you were also in America for eight years, travelling around America for five years. Where else have you lived?”
And I experienced that not uncommon feeling that I should have kept my mouth shut. Clearly jealous, because although spending 12 years in Portugal and America is hardly exceptional, the Rag Tag wanted desperately to disbelieve that I’d made it happen. But as I say, it’s not exactly notable, is it? I hadn’t told him I’d travelled with a circus for 15 years, or explored the Amazon (although I do have a very good friend who did that for a couple of years), I just mentioned a couple of things that happened when I lived in such-and-such a place. Rag, Tag & Bobtail, who no doubt lived in Tunbridge-Wells-in-Antipathy his whole life hated the fact that he’d never left, and rather than berating himself for not being bold enough to bring out the daring and gutsy poetry of his own life, he hated me because I was.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you”
Source: Another Day
“One last thing," I say over my shoulder, too quiet for my family to hear over the hovercraft churning. "Don't think I've overlooked that you came to my house and almost foiled my plan, despite knowing how important it is to me. If you tip off the army in even the slightest way, I will kill myself when they lock me up, and then I will haunt you.”
Source: Iron Widow
“One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.”
“One last toast, to our friend, Owen Hart. We'll never forget you, buddy.”
“One last Unseen entities possessed my mind in the chaos of their worship. Created by the heathen ancestors, deceased objects by otherworldy divinities provide comfort in my psyche. The whirlwind of its carnage gives me a hymn to lament for. The sun is my Deity, and I enjoy watching the world scorch while worshipping it. I am like a deity without a God because the universe is a pleasure in my thoughts. The only way I can experience life is through an illusion, such as being like a divine being, which molds and forsakes any belief in oneself in the absence of a God.”
“One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loves us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.”
Source: The Unknown O'Neill: Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill
“One late-autumn day I opened the back door to fetch some water, and there was a young hare sat on my back step. Save for the twitching of its nose, it froze in position as if I had surprised it as it was about to knock. It was already the size of a full-grown rabbit, and its black-tipped ears were longer than any rabbit’s would ever be. I stood there and waited for it to flush. After a while I began to doubt that it would, and squatted down to its level for a closer look, eye to eye. It stared at me apparently unconcerned, chewing silently, with bulging eyes that were such a rich golden colour they were almost orange, with black depths like the keyhole of a door to another world.”
Source: Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills
“One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“One law for the lion and ox is oppression.”
“One law of energy is this: energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality and vibration.”
Source: Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
“One law you shall never reject, laws are meant for the comfortable human life, not to discomfort the human life”
“One law you should never reject; laws are for the comfortable human life not to discomfort the human life”
“One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.”
“One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ...”
“One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.”
Source: Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994
“One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.”
“One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.”
“One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87”
Source: Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains
“One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.”
“One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.”
“One learns best as a child.”
Source: Selected Letters: 1898-1952
“one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.”