When One Quotes

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When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have… — Maxim Gorky
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one… — Zhuangzi
When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a… — Richard Jeni
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen. — Honore de Balzac
When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the… — Confucius
What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them! — Robert Harris
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on… — Margery Allingham
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as… — Marianne Moore
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the… — Spencer W. Kimball
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one… — Manfred von Richthofen
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal… — Gaston Bachelard
When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter… — Hal Turner
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who… — Francois Mitterrand
People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on… — Bob Balaban
Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October,… — Henry Mitchell
It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe… — Kevin Garnett
Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night… — Dave Barry
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we… — Jane Austen
Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place — H. L. Mencken
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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