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One Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer
- I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems…
- But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that…
- When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim.…
- That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book,…
- Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My…
- We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
- I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking…
- one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a…
- She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says…
- Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had…
- Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it…
- Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your…
- I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.
- He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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
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