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One Quotes by Janet Fitch
- Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:…
- I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring…
- My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every…
- I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic…
- Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever…
- How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to…
- The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I…
- But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
- But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one tiny…
- Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one,…
- One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
- If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker,…
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- 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