When One Quotes

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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole. — Unknown Author
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I donâ€™t admit to… — Virginia Woolf
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. — Oscar Wilde
Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased… — Sean Covey
The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer… — Peter HÃ¸eg
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home… — Catherynne M. Valente
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late. — Agatha Christie
It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And… — Gordon B. Hinckley
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of… — John Cheever
This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one… — Aldo Leopold
This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that… — Johnny Cash
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing… — Louis de Bernieres
So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road — Melina Marchetta
First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is… — Jesse Ball
I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting… — Sylvia Plath
An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together… — Nikki Gemmell
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since… — Dian Fossey
This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. — Dante Alighieri
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is… — Gertrude Stein

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