O Quotes
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“One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day’s work?'”
“One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.”
“One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.”
“One pearl is better than a thousand oysters.”
“One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.”
“One pearl is worth more than ten thousand oysters.”
“One pearl of wisdom is worth more than ten nuggets of gold.”
“One peculiar feature of Tolstoy's style is what I shall term the "groping purist." In describing a meditation, emotion, or tangible object, Tolstoy follows the contours of the thought, the emotion, or the object until he is perfectly satisfied with his re-creation, his rendering. This involves what we might call creative repetitions, a compact series of repetitive statements, coming one immediately after the other, each more expressive, each closer to Tolstoy's meaning. He gropes, he unwraps the verbal parcel for its inner sense, he peels the apple of the phrase, he tries to say it one way, then a better way, he gropes, he stalls, he toys, he Tolstoys with words.”
Source: Lectures on Russian Literature
“One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.”
“One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than about our 'good'. For previous thinkers about ethics, such as those who wrote the Upanishads, or Confucius, or Plato, or the founders of the Christian tradition, the central concern was the state of one's soul, meaning some personal state of justice or harmony. Such a state might include resignation or renunciation, or detachment, or obedience, or knowledge, especially self-knowledge. For Plato there could be no just political order except one populated by just citizens.... Today we tend not to believe that; we tend to think that modern constitutional democracies are fine regardless of the private vices of those within them. We are much more nervous talking about our good: it seems moralistic, or undemocratic, or elitist. Similarly, we are nervous talking about duty. The Victorian ideal of a life devoted to duty, or a calling, is substantially lost to us. So a greater proportion of our moral energy goes to protecting claims against each other, and that includes protecting the state of our soul as purely private, purely our own business.”
Source: Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
“One peek inside his top drawer had been enough for Sophie. Swimming goggles, nail clippers, a Ferragamo tie wound into a tight coil, and packets of Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard. None of that compared to Ira Blumenstein's gold tooth, Kenneth Yang's Darth Vader lollipop, or Rich Angstrom's Magic 8 Ball.”
Source: Buying In
“One pen can defeat a thousand guns, that's why books get banned, not guns.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“One People, one Reign, one Leader.”
“One percent doubt is zero percent faith.”
“One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.”
“One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.”
“One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".”
Source: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves
“One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.”
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”
Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION”
Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson
“One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.”
“One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.”
“One period of grief is followed by another, so I am in constant mourning. This is my natural state.”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“One person actually asked me to marry them! Overall all they have a great respect for me and they know who I am and I am very open about it. In Los Angeles, we actually had two screenings because so many people showed up!”
“One person. All it takes is one person."
-Severus Snap , Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
“One person. All it takes is one person."
-Severus Snape”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.”
“One person at a time, one company at a time.”
“One person can and does make a difference.”
“One person can bring favor to many during the storm.”
“One person can change the world.”
“One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.”
“One person can keep a secret, but not two.”
Source: Ready Player One
“One person can make a difference, and every person should try.”
“One person can make a difference. One
person with an army behind them can change the
world.”
Source: Fight Like a Girl
“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
“One person can make a difference.”
“One person can make a difference. In fact, its not only possible for one person to make a difference, its essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.”
“One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.”
“One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life.”
“One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.”
“One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.”
“One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world.”
“One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.”
“One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.”
“One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.”
“One person caring for one neighborhood, that's how we'll change the world, not with policy and policing.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“One person does make a difference. Jesus was one person. He made a difference. Stop telling the Lord that the problem is too big. Stop looking at your problem. The more you look at the problem, the bigger it gets. God is bigger than that problem. Keep your eyes on God! Let God be bigger than your feats! You are one person, but you have the life of God on the inside of you. You can and will make a difference!”
Source: Cursing the Church or Helping It?: Exposing the Spirit of Balaam