O Quotes
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“One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was... irrecoverably broken at a touch.”
Source: Bishop Burnet's history of his own time
“One of the strangest experiences I had in life was watching my professional astronomy girlfriend turn into a lesbian.”
“One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our decedents, is that doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind, -the omnipotence of the law, -the infallibility of the legislature: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic.”
Source: The Law
“One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.”
“One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.”
“One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.”
“One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.”
“One of the strangest things is the act of creation.
You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instrument.
You then look inside yourself. You pull and tug and squeeze and fish around for slippery raw shapeless things that swim like fish made of cloud vapor and fill you with living clamor. You latch onto something. And you bring it forth out of your head like Zeus giving birth to Athena.
And as it comes out, it takes shape and tangible form.
It drips on the canvas, and slides through your pen, it springs forth and resonates into the musical strings, and slips along the edge of the sculptor’s tool onto the surface of the wood or marble.
You have given it cohesion. You have brought forth something ordered and beautiful out of nothing.
You have glimpsed the divine.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.”
“One of the strategies which atheists adopt is proving the non-existence of God by demonstrating that He is not divine. ‘There is so much bad happening in this world, if God is out there would he allow all of that?’ It is a fallacy. A true atheist doesn’t want to prove that God is evil. A true atheist should, instead, prove God doesn’t exist at all.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“One of the strategies which atheists adopt is proving the non-existence of God by demonstrating that He is not divine. ‘There is so much bad happening in this world, if God is out there would he allow all of that?’ It is a fallacy. A true atheist doesn’t want to prove that God is evil. A true atheist should, instead, prove God doesn’t exist at all. It’s laughable. I mean, I can understand westerners using this strategy, for according to the Judeo-Christian tradition, God is considered divine. There is a clear difference between the agents of evil and the agents of good. But if you are someone who has the privilege of knowing eastern philosophy, and you still take this path, which is proving the non-existence of God by proving he is evil, it’s funny and laughable, and a sign of ignorance.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.”
Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
“One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.”
“One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.”
“One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.”
“One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.”
“One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.”
“One of the striking things and Donald Trump is right, he gets no Democratic votes. It`s interesting there were Democrats from states some of them more conservative states that voted him, Indiana, Missouri, West Virginia, Montana, North Dakota. They`re not afraid of Donald Trump those Democratic Senators because they know more than he knows and know what the people want.”
“One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.”
“One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.”
“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.”
Source: The life and thoughts of John Foster
“One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.”
“One of the strongest lifts you can achieve is yourself. So lift yourself up from depression and lift yourself up to greatness.”
“One of the strongest loves I’ve ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child.”
Source: Eena, The Return of a Queen
“One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.”
“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
Source: Essays in Science
“One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.”
Source: Common Sense
“One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.”
“One of the strongest ways to increase likability and foster a connection is to demonstrate that we understand someone else’s needs and are happy to help fulfill them.”
“One of the stupidest theories of Western life.”
“One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.”
“One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.”
“One of the suckiest and most frustrating facts of life is that sometimes relationship just end, often without reason. I truly believe that sometimes both men and women simply run out of love, even when there was a lot of it in the beginning”
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.”
Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir
“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”
“One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.”
“One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
“One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.”
“One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?”
Source: The Art of War
“One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to [his or her] opinion, let [him or her] sustain a feeling of importance.”
“One of the surest ways to end generational poverty for good is by investing in real estate — buying land for commercial purposes with proper documentation.”
Source: True Ownership: How to Buy Generational Land: A Practical Guide to Building Lasting Land Legacy in Nigeria
“One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.”
“One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.”
“One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“One of the surprising realities about the Western Front was that intense action and peril were surrounded by long periods of having very little to do.”
Source: Courage: Roy Blanchard's Journey in America's Forgotten War
“One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.”