O Quotes
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“One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.”
“One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.”
“One reward of living in hell is a certain kind of courage. I do not fear anything, certainly not morality, or your foul fantasies either.”
Source: The Green Knight
“One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.”
“One right decision doth not a great president make.”
“One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition
“One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.”
“One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.”
“One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.”
“One Rockette, who's probably a lug head, doesn't even know which end's up or down, ends up making news, and the media loves to present it.”
“One rogue leads another.”
“One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.”
“One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.”
“One room in the two-story building glows, violin music emanating from it. Maroc is playing for his master: The Roar of Death Sonata, 1st Movement, one of the legendary Eleven Pieces composed after the Apocalypse.”
Source: The Oldest Dance
“One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.”
“One rose is enough for the dawn”
Source: The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book
“One rose says more than the dozen.”
“One rough patch is not the big picture.”
“One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.”
“One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.”
“One rule of conduct that has served me well is this: I don’t make an important decision until my heart (intuition) and my head (intellect) are both in agreement.”
Source: Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life
“One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.”
“One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.”
“One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“One's aesthetic changes once one has a child.”
Source: Meatless Days
“One’s behavior determines who arrives and stays in your life.”
“One’s belief cannot be allowed to suffocate under the tyranny of small minds, for hope itself does not hinge on the faith of the masses, rather the singular soul. And I hope most ardently.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“One's biggest career wins don't always bring one the most money. It is what you do after your win that determines true success.”
Source: Amplify Your Brand, Social Media, and Influence: Your Playbook to Elevate Your Presence, Connect with Millions, and Build a Profitable Personal Brand
“One's brilliance shall not be limited to someone's expertise”
“One's capacity to forget absolutely is immense.”
Source: The Black Prince
“One's character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life." He was quiet for a minute then dropped the curtain and said, "I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.”
“One’s child is the great treasure one will ever admire, but never own. You are the part of me that transcends time and carries my love with it.”
Source: Dark Eyes: White Lies
“One’s community of friends and relationships may evolve with time; even seasoned friendships may not last forever.”
“One's conduct, character, and action carry love and peace; hatred and violence; it depends on what one applies, upon itself; consequently, justice and equality prevail; otherwise, fail.”
“One's conduct illustrates and reflects its character and way of life.”
“One’s consciousness passes into a new realm on the brink of death, whether the soul does so or not. Anger, jealousy, hatred, ambition, regret, none of them matter in the end.”
Source: The Spirit Engineer
“One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.”
Source: Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River
“One's desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin--sometimes called the master chemical of sociability-- and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
“One's education is never complete. A missed opportunity doesn't preclude the possibility of new opportunities, or even better ones.”
Source: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...
“One’s enemies transmit your story in a distorted form; for they are wrought with envy, jealousy, and hatred. Their aim is to reduce your power and the level of presence.”
“One’s fate is never sealed until consecrated by the actions carried out in life.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“One’s final moments shouldn’t be without a little humor.”
Source: In Limbo
“One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.”
Source: A Creature Was Stirring
“One's first memories are often vicarious: one is told that one did something or was involved in something; one dramatizes it and folds the image falsely into the annals of the truly remembered.”
Source: Little Wilson and Big God
“One’s freedom is existentially and unavoidably constrained by the network of social obligations and responsibilities that one has to a whole range of intimate and distant others, from family to nation.”
Source: Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
“One's freedom is one's love and one's love
is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...”
Source: Valparaiso
“One’s identity is defined by their character.”