O Quotes
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“One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.”
Source: The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness
“One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.”
“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
“One may ask, "How do you know whether you are walking according to the flesh or the spirit?" It's obvious according to Galatians 5:19-21 "Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these" Galatians 5:22 gives the flip side But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control"
To determine if you are walking according to the flesh or the Spirit, examine what's radiating out of your life. Though we are in Christ Jesus, we can still choose to operate according to the flesh. So if you have a fit of rage, what is the problem? Is somebody making you angry? Is it a deed of the other person's flesh or yours?
We must assume responsibility for our own attitudes and actions. When you sense you're walking according to the flesh, confess it, and ask the Lord to take control of your life again. If we are filled with the Spirit, we will sing and make melody in our hearts to the Lord (see Ephesians 5:18-20). The law of the Spirit of life is always there, and we must learn to operate according to it. "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh." Galatians 5:16.”
Source: Living Free in Christ
“One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.”
“One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“One may be humble out of pride.”
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.”
Source: Sociable Letters
“One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty”
“One may be strengthened & fed without the aid of Joy, & no one knows it better than I do; & I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.”
Source: The letters of Edith Wharton
“One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.”
“One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.”
“One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.”
Source: Treatise on Light
“One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.”
Source: Resurrection
“One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.”
“One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.”
“One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it”
“One may deny; however, we all breathe as the prisoners of modern slavery under the power of religious, political, and industrial idiots.”
“One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.”
“One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.”
“One may discover integrity in the companionship of others, but one does not ever discover integrity by bowing to the demands of peer pressure. The heavier the pressure is toward conformity— no matter how lofty the proposed final goal— the more one must be suspicious of it and antagonistic to it. History has one consistent lesson in it: one by one, people give up what they know to be right and true for the sake of something loftier that they do not quite understand but should want in order to be good; soon, people are the tools of despots and atrocities are committed on a grand scale. And then, it is too late. There is no going back.
Women are especially given to giving up what we know and feel to be right and true for the sake of others or for the sake of something more important than ourselves. This is because the condition in which women live is a colonized condition. Women are colonized by men, in body, in mind. Defined everywhere as evil when we act in our own self-interest, we strive to be good by renouncing self-interest altogether.”
Source: Letters from a War Zone
“One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.”
“One may enter my life; a password of it is, Love.”
“One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.”
“One may even have ‘greed’ for self-respect. Greed gives rise to circumstances. When circumstance arises, worldly life arises.”
Source: Anger
“One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.”
“One may expect appreciation, from others, and that one may ignore to appreciate others. Indeed, it reflects openly one's self-absorption.”
“One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.”
“One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects”
Source: Scientific Advertising Origins
“One may gain one truth at the expense of another.”
“One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.”
“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.”
“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.”
“One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.”
“One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.”
“One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.”
“One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.”
Source: The Song of the Lark
“One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.”
Source: If I lived my life again
“One may justify the existence of men in power in many different ways. Yet power remains a pernicious thing for what justifies it is inexpiable.
Fragility, which belongs to the realm of appearances, is to be preferred to the fractal which is merely the quality of a mathematical object.
It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done it yourself. You feel no intellectual jealousy at seeing yourself outstripped in this way. You only feel jealous when you are overtaken by your shadow.”
Source: Cool memories
“One may know a fact, see it oneself a hundred times, and still not get the impression one would if somebody else, a particular person, stands beside you and points out to you that very fact, but of course, in his own way, explains it to you in his own words, compels you to look at that fact with his own glance.”
“One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.”
Source: The spectator
“One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”
“one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it”
“One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.”
“One may like the love and despise the lover.”
Source: The Recruiting Officer: A Comedy. ... Written by Mr. Farquhar
“One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.”
Source: THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II
“One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?”
“One may live without bread, not without roses.”