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One Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the…
- I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
- I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised…
- Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
- It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live…
- Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary…
- Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a…
- Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false…
- Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides…
- As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not…
- The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
- The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and…
- I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by…
- Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
- There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
- The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
- All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather…
- As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though…
- A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — 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
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle