Best One S Qoutes
384 One S quotes by 316 unique authors
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What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
— Richard Matheson
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There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan…
— Nicholas Sparks
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To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe
— Bruce Chatwin
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Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language…
— George Sand
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown…
— Marquis de Sade
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of…
— Voltaire
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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great…
— Clive Barker
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The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by…
— Paulo Coelho
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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is…
— Norman Mailer
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Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege…
— George S. Patton
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Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that…
— Isak Dinesen
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It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,…
— George Orwell
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I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with…
— Yann Martel
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the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in…
— George Steiner
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Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to…
— Sylvia Plath
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Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four…
— Gunter Grass
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Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being…
— Steven Pressfield
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To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.
— Keith Donohue
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I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it…
— Sloane Crosley
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Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
— George Orwell
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