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Best One Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside.…
- Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had…
- She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of…
- Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if…
- In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
- Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
- Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but…
- She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the…
- But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
- Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and…
- People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So…
- Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started:…
- Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered…
- There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking…
- If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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