O Quotes
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“One need is greater than a thousand wants.”
“One need is greater than ten thousand wants.”
“One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”
Source: Listening Valley
“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.”
“One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.”
Source: Dickinson
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That whiter host.
Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place.
Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
Should startle most;
Assassin, hid in our apartment,
Be horror's least.
The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O'erlooking a superior spectre
More near.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
Source: Poems by Emily Dickinson
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.”
“One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.”
“One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.”
“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. Experiences and aspirations of which intimations may be found in Plato, Nietzsche, and Spinoza have found their most evocative expression in some sacred books. Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to Jeremiah's, or to the Second Isaiah. I do not read them as mere literature; rather, I read Sophocles and Shakespeare with all my being, too.”
“One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.”
“One need not fall in love; one must rise through love.”
Source: The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“One need not fear for the future of music.”
“One need not know one's karma, but have faith in life to be able to keep on going. With faith one can let go and let things take its course, embrace life and merge with it. Because she is the way.”
“One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.”
“One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.”
Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“One need only watch the way they behave at a concert, the opera, or the play; the childish simplicity, for instance, with which they keep on chattering during the finest passages in the greatest masterpieces. If it is true that the Greeks forbade women to go to the play, they acted in a right way; for they would at any rate be able to hear something. In our day it would be more appropriate to substitute taceat mulier in theatro for taceat mulier in ecclesia; and this might perhaps be put up in big letters on the curtain.”
Source: On Women
“One needn't stop dysfunction; just evince and reflect.”
“One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.”
Source: Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s
“One needs a vision of the promised land in order to have the strength to move.”
Source: War and Peace
“One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.”
Source: Lola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted
“One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased”
Source: Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
“One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.”
Source: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation
“One needs, in order to exist, realities that last.”
“One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.”
“One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
“One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.”
Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
“One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.”
“One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.”
“One needs roots as well as flowers on a plant, Mr. Legge. However large and beautiful the flowers, if the earthy roots are destroyed there will be no more flowers.”
“One needs serenity and elegance to take the most important steps in life.
Paulo Coelho, Chronicle – “On Elegance”
Source: Serenity: Day Planner 2024
“One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.”
“One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.”
Source: Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Rituals
“One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.”
“One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.”
“One needs to be right before getting righteous.”
“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“One needs to be Supernatural or Insane to defy Logic.”
“One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness”
“One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.”
“One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.”
“One needs to keep reminding themselves of higher goals at all times while observing the outcomes of smaller actions.”
“One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.”
“One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.”
“One needs to reflect regularly on their past actions and present endeavors to combat isolation, discouragement, and uneasiness.”
“One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.”
Source: The Positive Dog: A Story About the Power of Positivity
“One negative thought precedes the other, and together, they keep revolving in our heads, making us feel anxious and depressed.”
“One negative voice aimed at me has the incredible power to drown out a thousand positive ones. One of the greatest things I can achieve is to never let it.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One