When One Quotes
1211 quotes by 838 authors
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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with…
— Karen DeCrow
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My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when…
— Hallie Ephron
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by…
— Kara Swisher
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these…
— Buddha
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When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
— Arthur Wellesley
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I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me…
— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in…
— Gustave Courbet
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It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use…
— Julius Wellhausen
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
— Ed Wood
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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
— Sophocles
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Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a…
— Alice Foote MacDougall
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it…
— Imran Khan
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I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do…
— Dinah Sheridan
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Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on…
— Wolfgang Schauble
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As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true,…
— Mohammed VI of Morocco
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one
— C.S. Lewis
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one…
— Helen Keller
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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the US. government is virtually up for sale.
— John W. Gardner
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When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood,…
— Eliphas Levi
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