When One Quotes

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It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste. — Ngaio Marsh
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an. — Robert Spencer
Everyoneâ€™s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations. — Hamza Yusuf
When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly. — Robertson Davies
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to. — Carlos Castaneda
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck. — Michel Serres
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require… — Forrest Church
Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack… — Romano Guardini
A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. — Clara Bow
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it… — Betty Friedan
When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. — Gustave Courbet
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that,… — Truman Capote
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. — Lope de Vega
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in… — Soren Kierkegaard
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you… — Epictetus
I wouldnâ€™t go anywhere in confined spaces now. When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. Thatâ€™s me. I would not… — Joe Biden
While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked… — Mark Driscoll
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels… — James MacGregor Burns

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