O Quotes
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“One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.”
“One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.”
Source: And Yet...: Essays
“One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.”
“One of the many foolish things about the fools who compare writing about music to dancing about architecture is that dancing usually is about architecture. When bodies move in relation to a designed space, be it stage or ballroom or living room or gymnasium or agora or Congo Square, they comment on that space”
“One of the many gifts of family life is The Teachable Moment -the opportunity for a life lesson. Teachers use them and parents can too. Look for the lessons in everyday life.”
Source: Commonsense Tips for 21 C Parents With Writing Prompts
“One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.”
Source: Eclipse
“One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.”
Source: Selected Melanie Klein
“One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.”
“One of the many joys of Undercover is that other squads can never quite figure out when you’re on the job and when you're, say, on a genuine night out with the lads, so they tend to leave you alone, just in case.”
Source: Faithful Place
“One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.”
“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“one of the many mass-produced particles of time”
Source: Falling Awake
“One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative” and “indie” rock.”
Source: Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
“One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.”
“One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.”
Source: The House
“One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.”
“One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.”
“One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“One of the many reasons human cultures have long associated sleep with death is that they each demonstrate the continuity of the world in our absence.”
Source: 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.”
“One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.”
“One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction. I wonder how this contributes to the dreamlife of America, a dreamlife that is so deep and troubled.”
Source: The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America
“One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need is your imagination. It doesn't matter who you are, you can write. Your looks, especially, don't matter.”
Source: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.”
“One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring.”
“One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. Sure, sometimes they'll elude you by hiding in improbable places... But at other times they'll confront you, and you'll literally stumble over some tomes you hadn't thought about in weeks or years. I often seek electronic books, but they never come after me. They may make me feel, but I can't feel them. They are all soul with no flesh, no texture, and no weight. They can get in your head but can't whack you upside it.”
Source: The End of Your Life Book Club
“One of the many things I love about Daenerys from Game of Thrones is she's given me an opportunity to fly the flag for young girls and women, to be more than just somebody's wife and somebody's girlfriend.”
“One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that looks a little bit deeper and sees things that other people might not see in you - sometimes you might not even see in yourself - but that he knows are there and that he might want to get to grow and stretch with as an actor.”
“One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one set for everyone else. I never would have imagined it could be so glaring.”
“One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."”
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”
“One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.”
“One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”
Source: Dandy in the Underworld
“One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.”
Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much
“One of the many ways that loss instructs us is by correcting our sense of scale, showing us the world as it really is: so enormous, complex, and mysterious that there is nothing too large to be lost — and, conversely, no place too small for something to get lost there… Like awe and grief, to which it is closely related, loss has the power to instantly resize us against our surroundings; we are never smaller and the world never larger than when something important goes missing.”
Source: Lost & Found: A Memoir
“One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.”
“One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.”
“One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.”
“One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.”
“One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.”
“One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.”
“One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.”
“One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.”
Source: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: A Flavia de Luce Novel
“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.”
“One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.”