Things One Quotes

132 quotes by 121 authors

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today,… — Shimon Peres
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. — Eleanor Roosevelt
You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm… — Kiki Smith
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' — J.R.R. Tolkien
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that… — Donald Trump
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are… — Oscar Wilde
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel — Henry James
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. — Harold Pinter
There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed… — Suzanne Weyn
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to. — Arundhati Roy
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers. — Agatha Christie
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores… — Marilynne Robinson
Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one… — Brandon Sanderson
It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and… — Neil Gaiman
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about… — Woody Allen
One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience. — Cecelia Ahern
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. — Virginia Woolf

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