O Quotes
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“One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.”
“One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.”
“One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.”
“One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.”
Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
“One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.”
“One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.”
“One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.”
“One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. But, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that Americans have not been living into them.”
“One of the revelations that came with a deeper understanding of quantum mechanics is the fact that you cannot observe an event without removing some small piece from it. Every time you dream, you take something back with you.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.”
“One of the richest and largest markets in the world, Europe can set global standards. And if a French president is prepared to at least consider clear rules in the Eurozone, then it would be fatal if Germany were not to react.”
“One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.”
“One of the richest countries in the world - the United States of America - is facing a real ethical dilemma in terms of providing equitable access to health care.”
“One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.”
“One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.”
“One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.”
“One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certain place in the hills above the river in the Silver Time, a little piece of my world, that became my world. |Every night I took it out and held it in my hand while I lay in bed waiting to sleep, thinking of the sunlight on the hills above the river, listening to the soft shushing of the ship’s systems, like a mechanical sea”
Source: The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth
“One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small "under-five" role I did on "The Young and the Restless." I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap.”
“One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.”
“One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events”
“One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.”
“One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.”
“One of the rules of plays, I feel, is to never use an extra word if you don't have to.”
“One of the rules that I always follow is that no matter how crazy characters may act, and no matter how absurd or strange their actions may be, that it's justified in the character's mind why they are doing it. Not to get all heady about it, but it's fun for me to test how far I can go with things while still keeping it grounded enough that you believe that the character really believes that what he's doing will get him what he wants. It's a personal challenge to me to see how far I can go with that.”
“One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.”
Source: Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories
“One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.”
“One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.”
“One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.”
“One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or "Conservative" banner and forget, for a time, that the big problems in our country have been around a long time and have been batted back and forth, caused and exacerbated, by both sides, and are more spiritual or ethical than [merely] political.”
“One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.”
“One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.”
“One of the sadder things, I think,
Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
Presents and parties disappear,
The cards grow fewer year by year,
Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
How many care we're still alive?”
Source: Collected Poems
“One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court.”
“One of the saddest aspects for me about filming in South Africa was that the real inequalities are still very much in place - and those are economic inequalities.”
“One of the saddest connections is
the rebound relationship.
You’re using one person to try to
unlove another.
There’s nothing pure or honest
in what that relationship is,
or ever will be, as you’ve carried into
it an unhealed bond to what was.
Take time to cleanse,
to heal, to renew, to grow, to become.”
“One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.”
“One of the saddest feelings is when you realize that you are leaving a place where no one will miss you, and going to a place where no one is waiting for you.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.”
“One of the saddest realities in life:
Sometimes, no matter how much, how long, and how hard you love someone, it will always feel empty.
Why? Because deep in your heart, you know you're not the one.”
Source: Love, Lavender Pen : Volume I
“One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.”
“One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.”
“One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.”
Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations
“One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.”
Source: Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems
“One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.”
“One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.”
“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
“One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.”