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One Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
- I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having…
- Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But…
- It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.
- Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation…
- To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly…
- Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions…
- Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
- She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there…
- She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough…
- I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel…
- Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible…
- There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency…
- Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you…
- I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an…
- It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores…
- Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
- One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
- One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
- A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically…
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