Quotes with number-one

Quotes 3121 till 3140 of 6069.

  • George Sand One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Bethany Hamilton One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • C. K. Williams One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Aldous Huxley One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Wolfe One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier One brave deed makes no hero.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Marie Henri Beyle One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Oscar Wilde One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Norman Douglas One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Sir Edwin Arnold One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
    Sir Edwin Arnold
    English poet and journalist (1832 - 1904)
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  • Henry Miller One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carter G. Woodson One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anish Kapoor One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • George Orwell One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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