O Quotes
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“One of the signs that things are going reasonably well for democracy is that we have the states where they're closer to the people. Federalism is a strength. We have all of these civil society institutions - civil society is a very important hallmark of democracy.”
“One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.”
“One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.”
Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith
“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at." "Meaning you?" "What else?”
Source: City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition
“One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.”
“One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.”
“One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.”
“One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.”
Source: The Tough-Minded Optimist
“One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.”
“One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.”
“One of the six components of every endogroup is an existential threat from external forces. Another is an identity which enables exclusive membership. An empire which includes everyone cannot be exclusive or have plausibly threatening external forces. If there is no external threat, the equally inherent human tendency to egalitarianism creates a counter force which will dismantle any endogroup power structures created in times of emergency.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.”
“One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So instead of taking courses, I've been very lucky in that I found teachers - scientists, especially - who were willing to teach me what I needed to know, whether it was about genetically modified crops or how photosynthesis works, and so on. I just find my teachers and don't have to pay for my education.”
“One of the skills sought and expected by senior executives in our organisations is undoubtedly the strategic ability to think, plan and act.”
“One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.”
Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living
“One of the small joys of adulthood was moving at her own speed.”
Source: A Modern Witch
“One of the smart behaviors for the readers is, challenging yourself.
Which means the determination of the reader to finish a certain amount of readings, in a certain amount of time, and he, or she, can declare his challenge with himself to his parents, or one of his siblings, or close friends, since lots of experiences proved that declaring self challenging to the others helps to achieve and fulfill goals.”
“One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely”
“One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.”
“One of the social problems with High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) is that my young daughter is forming many memories of attending doctors appointments with her sickened father.”
“One of the solutions to increasing the resilience of the rural economy is the automation of the rural economy in a sustainable manner. The adoption of a sustainable and inclusive approach to automating the rural economy can enhance efficiency and speed at each stage of the supply chain.”
“One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.”
“One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.”
“One of the soul's great tragedies is to execute a work and then realize, once it's finished, that it's not any good. The tragedy is especially great when one realizes that the work is the best he could have done. But to write a work, knowing beforehand that it's bound to be flawed and imperfect; to see while writing it that it's flawed and imperfect--this is the height of spiritual torture and humiliation.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.”
“One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.”
“One of the speaking programs I deliver is entitled, "Service with a Smile . . . How to Create a Sensational Customer Experience." Smiling is at the heart of my teaching because when employees smile while delivering service, it tells the guest/client/customer . . .
You matter.
You are important.
We are glad you are here.
We appreciate your business.”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."”
“One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.”
“One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.”
“One of the special teams turned sadistic in Kandahar and took out a village. The organization reacted swiftly by shutting down the program and denying any and all knowledge. Contracts were severed. Their service records heavily redacted. Overnight, the entire team was out. Out of the military, out of the war, out of the only life they knew. Team Fear took the fall.”
Source: Live By The Team
“One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.”
“One of the speechless situations is when the people you admire, people you follow, people you look forward to standby you and support you, people you are dedicated towards and people whom you consider self made and respectable, stand helpless in front of you when others cut you into pieces.
They keep standing, they fumble, they are helpless.
And you're just disappointed”
“One of the speed reading techniques:
Developing the skill of reading and researching by reading under the pressure of time, which means the achieved reading in a certain amount of time, like a person decides to read specific pages under the condition of finishing them in a specified period.
It is not concealed to a mind the rule of this concentrated reading in increasing the amount of information a reader will obtain in a short while.”
“One of the springs of poetry is joy.”
Source: Writings on Writing
“One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined eyes land on Seth. "This is the women's restroom." She points a finger to the door. "Can't you read?" "Can't you see that everyone in this club is about twenty years younger than you?" Seth retorts, turning to the mirror. With his pinkie, he messes with bangs. "Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to have some fun.”
Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden
“One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.”
“One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?”
“One of the stipulations is that you sleep in my bed every night.”
Source: Tempting Danger
“One of the stock arguments against describing the sexual act is that it is always the same. Sade's structure is based on the conviction that it is not: an enormously extended set of variations moves progressively away from the original theme. This was not merely a stratagem for avoiding repetition: it was a logical development from the assumption that to the connoisseur of sexual pleasure, diversification is essential.”
Source: De Sade: A Critical Biography
“One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'”
“One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.”
“One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.”
“One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.”
Source: Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing
“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.”
“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.”
Source: The Secret Garden
“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.”
“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests.”
“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests, which has worked time and time again with PEN.”