O Quotes
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“One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“One slumber finds another.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan
“One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.”
“One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
“One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded him when he was three. His classmates shriek with laughter.”
Source: Notes on an Exodus
“One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.”
“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.”
Source: Kittens!
“One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.”
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.”
Source: TransAtlantic
“One small hand lifted to the shower head and he stilled. He’d yet to see her skin; the dragon had claimed her on scent alone.”
Source: Searing Ecstasy
“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“One small virus is enough for me to change the world”
“One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.”
“One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.”
Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays
“One smile can start a friendship. One word can end a fight. One look can save a relationship. One person can change your life.”
“One smile caused by you is worth a hundred king's ransoms.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“One smile has the power to...
Calm fears.
Soften stone walls.
Warm a cold heart.
Invite a new friend.
Mimic a loving hug.
Beautify the bearer.
Lighten heavy loads.
Promote good deeds.
Brighten a gloomy day.
Comfort a grieving spirit.
Offer hope to the forlorn.
Send a message of caring.
Lift the downtrodden soul.
Patch up invisible wounds.
Weaken the hold of misery.
Act as medicine for suffering.
Attract the companionship of angels.
Fulfill the human need for recognition.
Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“One smile heals the planet because it spreads like a virus from one to the next without care for the perfect environment.”
“One smile in the morning can change your mood for the entire day. One hug in the evening can usher you into cheerful night dreams you will never regret!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“One smile is equivalent of a hundred poems.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“One Smile makes two Smiles and two makes many Smiles so keep Smiling :) :).”
“One smile relieves a heart that grieves.”
Source: Selected poems
“One smile speaks louder than a hundred words.”
“One smile speaks louder than a library.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“One smirk, and you disassemble my armor.”
Source: Shades of Vanity - Shades and Shadows of Eroticism
“One snarled at him and lifted a four-headed scourge of living, hissing snakes his way. A second crossed the hands of her outstretched arms before her in the spider symbol, thumbs as pedipalps, eight fingers as legs—a typical casting pose for a Lolthian priestess—while the third dropped a globe of darkness over the group.”
Source: Lolth's Warrior
“One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.”
Source: Idylls of the King
“One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.”
Source: Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality
“One sock can't house two feet. If it does, it’s of no use.”
Source: You By You
“One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“One soldier picked up a dead Argentine, supported the corpse's weight underneath his arm, put a cigarette in the dead man's mouth, then one in his own. He then held a lighter under the corpse's cigarette and his friend took a photograph. They both laughed. I also laughed.
This was foolish ― smoking can kill.”
Source: A Soldiers Song: True Stories From The Falklands
“One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.”
“One solitary tear crept through the scars of his face, through the diagrams of constellations and the incised maps of influence and dominion. A liquid without a name, it being made of so many emotions and conflicts, each cancelling the other out until only salt and gravity filled the moment and moved down through his expression.”
Source: The Vorrh
“One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.”
Source: The Final Columns of Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I
“One sometimes find themselves wholeheartedly concerned with whether the glass is half empty or is the glass half full.
Ignoring completely the presence of the glass.
The trials and tribulations we encounter are our glass half empty.
The opportunities we are accorded sees our glass half full
But when do we focus on us ? ...... The receptacle.
When do we clean our glass?
Take heart; after each set back....
Reflect, regroup and find solace in the growth that has taken place.
For we never pour fresh champagne in yesterdays dirty glass
So should keeping our receptacle clean be our daily task.”
“One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”
“One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.”
“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.”
Source: Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell
“One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.”
“One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'”
“One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.”
“One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.”
“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”
“One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist”
“One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.”
“One soulmate is enough to overcome ten thousand soul enemies.”
“One sound blow will serve to undo us all.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02