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One Quotes by Robert Graves
- There is one story and one story only.
- Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in…
- To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central…
- A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in…
- Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering…
- One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
- Entrance and exit wounds aresilvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood. The one-armed man…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — 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
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle