Ones Quotes - page 4

O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Montesquieu

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Jack Kerouac

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

Françoise Sagan

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction.

Michael Moore

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

Margaret Mead

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Herbert Simon

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all. (Dashiell Hammett)

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Henry Miller

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite.

Eric S. Raymond

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.

Matt Dillon

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

Tori Amos

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

Marvin Minsky

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Joseph Heller

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love. (Alice Walker)

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Edward Albee

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Kingsley Amis

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Donald Trump

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