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One Quotes by James Lee Burke
- I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I…
- That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody…
- But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history…
- One day you'll have a quiet heart.
- In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at…
- I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And…
- If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about…
- You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to…
- The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
- I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault…
- writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the…
- Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its…
- If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger…
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