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One Quotes by Robert Harris
- A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and…
- What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
- If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.
- Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
- One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's…
- To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize…
- What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
- Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them…
- To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
- Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the…
- But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time,…
- One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- 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
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle