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One Quotes by John Green
- Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but…
- What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful…
- One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're…
- That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us…
- When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how…
- One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or…
- As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
- And as we kept driving north, the whole family in the care together, it got darker, and snowier, until finally the road delivered us to…
- If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.
- The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his…
- We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.
- I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a…
- Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I…
- Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that…
- Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one…
- In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in…
- Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.
- He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon…
- I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know,…
- I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least…
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