When One Quotes

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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. — Frederick Buechner
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things. — Robin McKinley
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. — Harper Lee
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive. — Aldous Huxley
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be… — Douglas Coupland
Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased… — Peter HÃ¸eg
It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales,… — Howard Pyle
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to… — Tom Stoppard
Itâ€™s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal. — Stephen Chbosky
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are… — Wallace Stegner
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that… — Fernando Pessoa
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one… — Albert Camus
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and… — Booker T. Washington
When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties… — Fernando Pessoa
When one is silent, those around speak even more. — Melina Marchetta
I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. — Ayn Rand

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