O Quotes
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“One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.”
“One source of income can create multiple sources for you if you know how to manage and multiply the money you are making.”
“One source of the sublime is infinity.”
“One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus
“One spares old people just as one spares children.”
“One spark can change everything.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls,
When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops.
He mocks the guinea, challenges
The crow, inciting various modes.
The sparrow requites one, without intent.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“One speaks the languages one speaks and everyone will always speak the language they speak, and the language of the victors will always be on top, and so it goes. Besides, it would be funny if the victor were to speak the language of the loser, just as it was entirely natural for the loser to speak the language of the victor. But what about when the victor and loser speak the same language? What then?... 'Then quick, think up a new language. That, at least, is easy!”
Source: Checkpoint
“One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.”
“One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“One special gift that is often overlooked is the spirit of perseverance.”
“One species, one anthem, one motto - assimilation.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“One specific new diagnosis, in borders of psychiatric and criminal Vietnamese waterboarding games, is available, recently.”
“One speech in't I chiefly loved.
T'was Aeneas' tale to Dido; and thereabout of it especially when he speaks of Priam's slaughter.
If it live in your memory, begin at this line”
Source: Hamlet
“One Spirit Medicine allows you to experience communion with Spirit and understand the workings of creation. This understanding is not academic or intellectual; it’s kinesthetic and sensory-a knowingness that pervades every cell of your body...you experience a transcendent awareness that penetrates your whole being. You truly grasp that energy and consciousness can never be destroyed, only transformed into myriad shapes and forms, one of which happens to be you.”
“One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.”
Source: One Spirit Medicine: Ancient Ways to Ultimate Wellness
“One spirit, one shepherd”
“One spirit remained unaware of his presence, staring at Miss Parker with such longing that he reluctantly decided to let it stay. The spirit, a hollow-eyed girl with ringlets and clothing from long past, reached toward Percy, wishing to touch her. Alexi understood. When left to her own devices, Miss Parker was neither shy nor awkward; she was radiant.”
Source: The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
“One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says the first disease is not terminal. Hope is built into the structure of our personalities, into the depths of our unconscious; it plagues us to the very moment of our death. The critical question is whether hope is self-deception, the ultimate cruelty of a cruel and tricky universe, or whether it is just possibly the imprint of reality.”
Source: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus
“One spoon of Dylan makes a gallon of meanings.”
Source: Utopia Avenue
“One spring day in particular, when flowers were just blooming and the breeze was calm, one of our hellblazers broke into the house and flew around hysterically, scorching the place. Roasted Chicken---named by a nine-year-old with witty humor, as all the chickens were named after chicken entrees--- wreaked havoc. The difference between a regular chicken and a hellblazer is the latter spits flames. And this mother-clucking flock had been rescued from an underground fighting ring--- they were feisty.”
Source: Second Time's a Charm
“One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.”
“One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.”
Source: Racism 101
“One star shone brighter than the others. It flickered restlessly as if ready to burst with the great light bestowed on it by the Creator’s hand. It had nothing to hide, so much to express, as it hung in the heavens as a testament to the One who had put it in place.”
Source: Cleftlocke
“One star. Story had absolutely no depth and narrator sounded like he'd rather be kicked in the balls but he was pretty hot so I'll give him a star.”
Source: How to Defy a Vampire
“One starts an action simply because one must do something.”
Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot
“One starts from the experiential assumption
that the mind-body modality changes through the training of the
mind and body by means of cultivation (shugyo) or training (1ceiko).
Only after assuming this experiential ground does one ask what the
mind-body relation is. That is, the mind-body issue is not simply a
theoretical speculation but it is originally a practical, lived experience
(taiken), involving the mustering of one's whole mind and body. The
theoretical is only a reflection on this lived experience.”
“One starts gaining benefits from the moment he comes to know the Soul (our true self) in word-form. The Soul in the word-form is found in the scriptures. The real Soul is found within the Gnani [the enlightened one].”
Source: Noble Use of Money
“One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.”
Source: The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)
“One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”
“One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.”
“One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.”
“One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.”
“One step at a time, a man walked on the moon.
One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'”
“One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.”
“One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.”
“One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.”
Source: Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God
“One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.”
“One step in the right direction is better than a hundred years of thinking about it.”
“One step off that ground and they were trespassers among the human race”
Source: Beloved
“One step toward defining anything is to determine what it is not. A popular approach to the word pornography is an appeal to its ancient Greek roots. This approach should be discarded. The word pornography originally meant "writing about harlots or prostitutes." But its meaning has evolved over centuries of use through dozens of different cultures. Like the Greek word gymnasium, which originally meant, "place of nakedness," the word pornography has lost its connection with the past.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.”
“One step, two...three...Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking." "Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older." She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall.”
Source: The Darkest Passion
“One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year.” Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months.”
Source: Steve Jobs
“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”
“One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique..., the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble.”
“One still questions the actions of the warriors on the battlefield, and whether that could have been averted or done differently. We always have a choice to do something either the right way or the easy way.”
Source: Ashwatthama's Redemption: The Rise of Dandak [Paperback] Gunjan Porwal
“One stone is enough to break a glass,
One sentence is enough to break a heart,
One smile is enough to fall in love,
& one God is enough to live a fulfilling life..”
“One stood behind me and ran her hands down my chest, her breasts rubbing against my back. The next stood in front of me holding onto my shirt and pulling me close to her as she ground into me seductively. The third danced slowly and seductively with the second girl, giving the girl-on-girl effect. I knew I was going to burst at any moment, so I had to close my eyes and take repeated deep breaths to calm down.
"What’s the matter Aid-man, you feeling a little frustrated?" Dixon boasted from under his lap dancer.
"Shut up Dixon." Though I didn’t really want him to shut up, his teasing was distracting me pretty well. "I’m going to kill you for this."
"Oh no little man!" He laughed loudly. "Thank your future wife! That one is on her!" he howled.”