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Best One Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
- Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of…
- In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
- But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming…
- Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a…
- Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you…
- So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what…
- But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your…
- Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We…
- What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge.…
- Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
- Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one…
- One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because…
- Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
- But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't…
- The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live…
- Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and…
- It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
- It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
- Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble…
- Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working…
- A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
- The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go...…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle