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One Quotes by David McCullough
- There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.
- It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the…
- If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.
- Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
- With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be…
- Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was…
- I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack…
- George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do…
- When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
- To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college…
- People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I havent the faintest idea. Thats why youre writing the book,…
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