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One Quotes by Gail Sheehy
- My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to…
- Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
- According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those…
- A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She…
- Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under…
- Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
- There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
- Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your…
- No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
- The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
- If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This…
- We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and…
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one…
- We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they…
- Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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