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One Quotes by Gregory David Roberts
- Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do
- You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
- That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight…
- Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
- The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
- Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and…
- The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or…
- at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread,…
- The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them.…
- Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become.…
- At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread,…
- For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world…
- But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a…
- But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is…
- Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
- One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for…
- For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for…
- nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
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