O Quotes
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“One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.”
“One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.”
“One plus one equals both.”
“One plus one equals three. When a man and woman marry they become one never two.”
“one plus one is two; so the cord of two is better than one.”
“One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.”
“One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.”
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.”
“One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more
“One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking.”
Source: Compulsory Games
“One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One point of view gives a one dimensional world.”
“One point seemed to be very dear to the proud Minister; the company name had to be UMC, Ukrainian Mobile Communications. We agreed, understanding that this project was his baby and that he, too, was taking an enormous risk in the very uncertain and rapidly changing political environment. This was the still the USSR, where for obvious reasons, no normal citizen was allowed to have a phone. The waiting list was about 17 years for Communist Party members with a clear need. Fixed line penetration stood at about 7 or 8 percent.”
Source: Your phone, my life: Or, how did that phone land in your hand?
“One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.”
Source: The Allingham Case-book
“One politician can not make a government. He needs accomplices.”
Source: The New Land
“One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress”
“One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.”
“One poor choice shouldn't undo a thousand good ones.”
Source: A Vow So Bold and Deadly
“One popular defense of the Founding Fathers says they were simply men of their time, flawed idealists for whom 'that was the culture then.' But in fact, they were not men of their time. The Founding Fathers were men of their color (white) of their status (wealthy) of their descent (European) of their time.
To say that the Founding Fathers were men of their time defines time according to them. It legitimizes their place at the top of the world--the origin of popular history--even if the leaders of other nations were more democratic and fair-handed.”
Source: Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
“One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.”
“One positive person affects the whole universe. If you improve yourself as a human being then you will contribute for the betterment of the whole planet.”
Source: Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
“One positive seed-thought Has saved me, My entire life: My Lord Supreme Will always love me No matter what I do Or what I say Or even what I become.”
“One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.”
“One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.”
“One positive thought a day, keeps the misery at bay.”
Source: 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development
“One positive thought can change your whole day.”
“One positive thought is the victory you need today!”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.”
“One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course.”
Source: Love Declared: Essays on the Myths of Love
“One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.”
“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can pursue our ideals of affluence, comfort, mobility, and leisure indefinitely. This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical cause the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy, or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy. Nuclear power, if we are to believe its advocates, is presumably going to be well used by the same mentality that has egregiously devalued and misapplied man- and womanpower. If we had an unlimited supply of solar or wind power, we would use that destructively, too, for the same reasons.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.”
“One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.”
“One possible reason that I don't believe in fate is that I wasn't fated to.”
“One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.”
“One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.”
“One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide."”
“One potential remedy for human stupidity is a dose of humility. National, religious and cultural tensions are made worse by the grandiose feeling that my nation, my religion and my culture are the most important in the world – hence my interests should come before the interests of anyone else, or of humankind as a whole. How can we make nations, religions and cultures a bit more realistic and modest about their true place in the world?”
Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.”
“One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“One practical point many experts will attest to is that if you want to develop someone as a leader, give them lots of responsibility early in their lives and careers. The military does that. I can remember being officer of the deck on a destroyer, on watch and in charge at two in the morning as we plowed through the Mediterranean while 300 shipmates slept below decks. I was 25 at the time. I don't know how much of a leader I ever became, but the experience certainly brought home to me a sense of responsibility for others.”
“One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.”
“One praises that in which a being fulfills its potentialities or actualizes its perfections. Courage is the affirmation of one's essential nature, one's inner aim or entelechy, but it is an affirmation which has in itself the character of "in spite of". It includes the possible and, in some cases, the unavoidable sacrifice of elements which also belong to one's being but which, if not sacrificed, would prevent us from reaching our actual fulfillment. This sacrifice may include pleasure, happiness, even one's own existence. In any case it is praise-worthy, because in the act of courage the most essential part of our being prevails against the less essential.”
Source: The Courage To Be
“One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.”
“One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“One precious action is far better than plenty intentions.”
“One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.”