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One Quotes by Martha Graham
- I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.
- I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
- There is only one you in all time.
- You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety…
- One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should…
- I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape…
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of…
- We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are…
- Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
- To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials,…
- All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed…
- I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,…
- Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
- The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.
- I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting…
- To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of…
- There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in…
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