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Best One Quotes by Dave Barry
- I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.
- Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to…
- Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.
- One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.
- One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a…
- We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about:…
- 9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to…
- I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend…
- Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.
- The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."
- It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to…
- Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs…
- When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that…
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