O Quotes
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“One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.”
“One seldom finds something if one never actually looks for it”
Source: A Curious Beginning
“One seldom loves people for their virtues.”
“One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.”
“One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.”
Source: An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory
“One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.”
“One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.”
“One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.”
Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories
“One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.”
Source: Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.”
Source: The Battle of Jericho
“One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.”
“One service to need heals an ancient wound.”
“One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.”
“One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal.”
“One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.”
“One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.”
Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
“One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.”
“One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'”
“One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.”
“One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.”
“One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.”
“One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.”
Source: Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
“One Shiva's true devotee is equal to the entire universe.”
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
“One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“One shot is all you get. I don’t repeat lessons or reheat love.”
“One shot- one shot straight through that golden eye.
A plume of blood splattering the snow, a thud of a heavy body, a sigh of wind. No.
It wasn't a wolf that hit the snow- no, it was a man, tall, and well formed. No- not a man. A High Fae, with those pointed ears.
I blinked, and then- then my hands were warm and sticky with blood, then his body was red and skinless, steaming in the cold, and it was his skin- his skin- that I held in my hands, and-”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“One shot. That was all you got. - Isaac”
“One should absorb the color of life.”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
“One should accept things as they are and not try to lift them to impossible heights; only if you let them be will they reveal their true worth.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
“One should accept who they are or make changes to meet their expectations, instead of trying to be what they are not.”
“One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
“One should aim to be worthy. But worthy of what? Worthy of one's self!”
“One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.”
“One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.”
“One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.”
Source: In the Garden of Iden
“One should always be a little improbable.”
Source: Miscellanies
“One should always be curious to learn more, explore new avenues, and acquire new skills. Curiosity is the true driver of growth and success in life.”
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
“One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.”
“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
“One should always be in love.”
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“One should always be on their guard when bargaining with once-enemies.”
Source: For the Throne