O Quotes
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“One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.”
“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.”
“One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the time.”
Source: Voice from the East
“One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.”
Source: Killosophy
“One may not be able to fulfill a fatherly role with one's own child, but on the other hand, and this goes for me as well, one might still be a "father of choice" to someone else out there in the world. Fatherhood is something that can be shared worldwide. Meaning that in terms of the substance of a father's role, perhaps we are all pseudo-fathers.”
“One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.”
“One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.”
“One may not eat what has a face.”
“One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.”
Source: Complete Plays: 1932-1943
“One may not go and find love, it must be embraced.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“One may not have Gnan (Self-realization), but if he decides that he does not want to allow any “leakage” (weakness; straying away from the goal), he will attain it. When a person does not lend himself to even a moment’s worth of “leakage”; it is called penance (tapa).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.”
“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”
“One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.”
“One may often suffer a long time without knowing it”
Source: The Plague
“One may outwit another, but not all the others.”
“One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.”
“One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.”
Source: Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry
“One may quote till one compiles.”
“One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.”
Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers
“One may reach everywhere, with its resources and power; however, not the heart.”
“One may receive the information but miss the teaching.”
Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967
“One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.”
“One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.”
Source: Bird and Bough
“One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.”
Source: The Kai Lung Omnibus
“One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.”
“One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight - brilliant, sharp but cold ... thus we are clearest where knowledge matters least: in mathematics, especially number theory.”
“One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.”
Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.”
“One may share the doctrine of others; however, be aware that, it confirms and verifies one's ideology as well; consequently, one may lose its individuality.”
“One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.”
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”
“One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.”
Source: Essential Turgenev
“One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.”
Source: Healology
“One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.”
“One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.”
Source: Last Tales
“One May Think That Freedom From All Rules And Obligations Is Liberating, But When We Balance Our Lives With Right Kind Of Activities And Restrictions, We Could Fly Higher”.”
“One may try new subjects without having the experience of the mistakes since it lies in one's interest, choice, and impulse, not a mistake.”
“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.”
Source: Maxims of Life and Business
“One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at utter random...nevertheless although the miracle of life stands "explained" it does not strike us as any less miraculous. As Francois Mauriac wrote, What this professor says is far more incredible than what we poor Christians believe.”
“One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.”
Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
“One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies.”
“One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.”
“One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.”
Source: The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
“One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.”