O Quotes
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“One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.”
“One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.”
Source: Correspondence of the Late President Adams
“One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office”
“One Sallow does not make Summer.”
“One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral psychology and metaphysics. The comprehensive, holistic character of much recent theorizing suggests the futility of fastening on just a single sort of argument to refute a developed version of realism or antirealism. No one any longer thinks that ethical naturalism can be undermined in a single stroke by the open question argument, or that appeal to the descriptive semantics of moral discourse is sufficient to refute noncognitivism.”
“one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.”
“One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.”
“One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack of fear. And the gun shattered it; it fell to the earth and all the life had gone out of it. A dog fetched it, and the man collected other dead birds. He was chattering with his friend and seemed so utterly indifferent. All that he was concerned with was bringing down so many birds, and it was over as far as he was concerned. They are killing all over the world. Those marvellous, great animals of the sea, the whales, are killed by the million, and the tiger and so many other animals are now becoming endangered species. Man is the only animal that is to be dreaded.”
Source: Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal
“One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."”
“One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.”
“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”
“One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition
“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly
“One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.”
“One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.”
“One score makes happy ONE player, one assist makes happy TWO.”
“One scratch on Amy, and there'll be earthquake in Italy!”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“One season's dusk, another season's dawn. Gratitude fills the last page, anticipation pens the first.”
“One second after an EMP attack, it will be too late to ask two simple questions: what should we have done to prevent the attack and why didn't we do it?”
Source: One Second After
“One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.”
Source: The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy
“One second, he was in my mouth, my tongue flicking over the broad head of him; the next, his hands were on my waist and I flipped onto my front. He nudged my legs apart with his knees, spreading me as he gripped my hips, tugging them up, up before he sheathed himself deep in me with a single stroke.
I moaned into the pillow at every glorious inch of him, rising onto my forearms as my fingers grappled into the sheets.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.”
Source: Strength
“One second the gambler is active in their addiction – the dopamine is flowing – and the next second the money is all gone and they can no longer anticipate a big reward.
At that point they must get off the chair, step away from the machine, adjust their eyes to a larger field of vision, and then walk out the door in a trance, often into a dark and cold night.
The intensity and severity of that instantaneous transition from hopeful to hopelessness is so dramatic and dangerous that it has led to thousands of impulsive suicides.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms drops and his sword thunks to the grass like a lead weight. The angel stares at his blade uncomprehendingly.
Another sword drops.
Then another.
Then a whole bunch, until all the other unsheathed swords fall, thudding on the grass like subjects bowing down to their queen.
The angels stare at the swords at their feet in utter shock.
Then everyone looks at me. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say they’re looking at my sword.
“Whoa.” That’s about the most intelligent thing I can say right now. Did Raffe say something about an archangel sword intimidating other angel swords if she could gain their respect?
I swivel my eyes to look at the blade in my hands. Was that you, Pooky Bear?”
Source: World After
“One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.”
“One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.”
“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“One secret to happiness is to let each circumstance unfold as it truly is, not as you imagine it should be, and to embrace it with the resolve to make the best of what is given.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“One secret to living a great and successful life is to learn to develop and improve your potentials. Keep working on them, keep exercising and putting them to use. They get better and better the more you cultivate them.”
“One secret to my success is that I am faithful to my dreams and don't cheat on my dreams by taking drugs or blaming others when things don't go right.”
“One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.”
Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.”
Source: Strangest Secret
“One seed, one crack, and the light of a new life, for morning has made its way into the soul.”
“ONE SEED SHALL NOT MAKE A GARDEN BUT ONE PLANT SHALL MAKE A GARDEN”
“One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.”
“One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.”
“One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.”
Source: Taipei
“One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?”
Source: Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Robert Browning
“One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.”
“One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.”
Source: The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion
“One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye.”
Source: Le Petit Prince et ses amis
“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.”
“One sees ‘Sandyman’s disease’ in an advanced form in Saruman: it starts as intellectual curiosity, develops as engineering skill, turns into greed and the desire to dominate, corrupts further into a hatred and contempt of the natural world which goes beyond any rational desire to use it.”
Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .”
Source: Life in the Iron-mills: Easyread Edition
“One sees what he wants to see or allows to be planted in his mind. It’s like a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn’t there — and finding it.” - UNCLE HENRY”
Source: Working for Uncle Henry
“One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.”