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One Quotes by Lynne Truss
- As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible…
- One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face…
- What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
- I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for…
- Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his…
- No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to…
- Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing…
- The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have…
- Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?
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