One S Quotes

384 One S quotes by 316 unique authors

Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of… — David Livingstone
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and… — Arthur Koestler
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,… — Arthur Koestler
Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to… — Caroline Myss
There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too… — Stella Gibbons
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during… — J. L. Carr
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. — Maria Montessori
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or… — Marilyn Frye
The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and… — Phillip Lopate
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe. — L. Ron Hubbard
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in… — Maria Montessori
Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing. — Thomas J. Stanley
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in… — Julius Evola
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the… — Walter Brueggemann
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon. — Patrick O'Brian
Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with… — Pico Iyer
It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in… — Yohji Yamamoto
Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging… — Samuel Mockbee
Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in… — Elisabeth Eaves
The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely… — Elisabeth Eaves
The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes. — Bill Courtney
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a… — Christian Wiman
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path. — Chris Murray
In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath all. Worship does… — Thomas Raymond Kelly

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