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One Quotes by Alan Lightman
- Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no…
- With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive…
- Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
- We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if…
- Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that…
- What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
- A world with one month is a world of equality.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world…
- Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have…
- It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that…
- Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others…
- In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.…
- And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let…
- One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle