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One Quotes by Lauren DeStefano
- Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside…
- My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so…
- I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.
- And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse.…
- Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted.…
- His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's…
- She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
- He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.
- Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so…
- I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer…
- It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and…
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