O Quotes
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“One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.”
“One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.”
“One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.”
“One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796
“One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Washington: Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography
“One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.”
“One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.”
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
Source: Conversations with Salman Rushdie
“One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.”
“One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.”
“One of the factors that make great companies so great is that they have processes that allow them to solve difficult problems again and again. These processes have developed over time as teams have successfully wrestled with a certain type of challenge. Eventually, people begin to say, "This is just how we do something around here." The problem develops when that team then has to solve a very different set of challenges. The processes that are such strengths can be crushing liabilities.”
“One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.”
“One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.”
“One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.”
“One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.”
“One of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it doesn't make them inevitable. Hence the strange blindness of economists to what would actually happen when one does exchange things if there isn't money in such contexts.”
“One of the fans had a poster that said, 'I'm a Peeta-file. That was probably the best one.”
“One of the fantastic things about Silicon Valley is that it's both the birthplace of technology and it was one of the birthplaces of the counterculture. The Internet and the personal computer were going to be like the communes, where we would all be networked together, and we would be able to achieve this state of global consciousness.”
“One of the fascinating features of politics is that you never move in straight lines. Often you do it laterally. Also, you never lose sight of the long-term goals, whatever be the immediate temptations.”
Source: Minister’s Mistress - Not only the sins come calling
“One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space between the words. People just wrote in continuous script.”
“One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully.”
“one of the fascinating traits of human kind is how to corrupt anything.
which begs the question.
Are we really the children of god or bastards of devil?
look what we do to childhood innocence
look what we do to democracy
look what we do to a helpless women
look what we do a tired man,
look what we have done to religion, morality, diversity
look what we are doing to nature.
humanity really!”
“one of the fascinating traits of human kind is how we corrupt anything.
which begs the question.
Are we really the children of god or bastards of devil?
look what we do to childhood innocence
look what we do to a democracy
look what we do to a helpless women, a tired man.
look what we have done to religion, morality, diversity.
look what we are doing to nature.
humanity really!”
“One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.”
“One of the fastest way to learn is to learn what people know by meeting with them”
“One of the fastest ways to be anointed by God is to walk in God's wisdom.”
Source: Motivational Quotes by Vince Baker & Smith Wigglesworth: Victory & Success Is Just a Few Quotes Away
“One of the fastest ways to improve your health is to eat slowly.”
“One of the fastest ways to kill anything, is by giving in less attention”
“One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“One of the fatal mistakes the man has done to himself is dividing the period between two sunrises into twenty-four units. He did not just stop there, he went on cutting it further into smaller pieces called minutes and seconds. Then, suddenly, he imagined a larger disaster, and combined thirteen full moons and name that catastrophe a year.
Finally, instead of our mind, we are governed by a clock that ticks every second distracting us keeping us stuck in the snare of time, for a timeless, infinite and eternal period, till the man extinct on the face of the earth".”
Source: Termites
“One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“One of the ‘faults’, which Albert attempted to cure her of, and failed, was the Queen’s inability to live in the present. When she was happy, she fended off the future by anticipating it; and dealt with change when it came by dwelling on the past. The band under her window would wake her with a hymn – ‘Now thank we all our God’, or Psalm 100 – while Albert wished her joy so tenderly, so merrily, so lovingly, that she confessed humbly: ‘Often I feel surprised at being so loved, and tremble at my great happiness, dreading that I may be too happy.”
Source: Victoria and Albert: A Family Life at Osborne House
“One of the favorite games I play, when I improv or take on a character, is what I like to call arrogant ignorance. That's the game I enjoy playing most.”
“One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy.”
“One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.”
“One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd have an allotted time.”
“One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.”
Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
“One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.”
“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.”
“One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss.
Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination– which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life from this world.”
Source: Spirit Bound
“One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.”
Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.”
“One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.”
Source: The Tough-Minded Optimist
“One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.”
“One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not as either gay or straight. Because as far as we knew, we thought everyone was straight.”
“One of the few stable statistics in our fast-changing world is our rate of divorce, which has hovered between 40 and 50 percent for the last thirty years. Any two people who marry face a grim 50 to 60 percent chance of survival. And if that weren’t sobering enough, one needs to ask further: Of those who remain together, how many do so happily, as opposed to those who stay for external reasons, like their children, finances, religion, or fatigue? Conservatively, we can estimate that at least one out of three, perhaps one out of two, of those couples left standing do not relish their lives together.”
Source: How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.”
“One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is a signal to spend it now. Something more will arise later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.”
Source: The Writing Life