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One Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
- I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all…
- Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by…
- There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any…
- Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you…
- One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
- Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
- The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our…
- Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do.…
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