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One Quotes by Douglas Adams
- In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
- It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very…
- 2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for…
- For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and…
- Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself…
- Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
- But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the…
- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem…
- We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We…
- It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob…
- A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite…
- One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
- He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he…
- One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of…
- Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you…
- There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes
- One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take…
- Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point…
- That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able…
- Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside,…
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