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Quotes About One

One or two individuals in times of crisis turn into Heroes, a handful into Villains, the rest into Fools.
~ Marisha Pessl
Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.
~ Mark Gatiss
I do not think you quite understand," said Phineas, "how such an ordeal as this works upon a man, how it may change a man, and knock out of him what little strength there ever was there. I feel that I am broken, past any patching up or mending. Of course it ought not to be so. A man should be made of better stuff; — but one is only what one is.
~ Anthony Trollope
Being cannot be one in form, though it may be in what it is made of. (Even some of the physicists hold it to be one in the latter way, though not in the former.) Man obviously differs from horse in form, and contraries from each other.
~ Aristotle
For if Being is just one, and one in the way mentioned, there is a principle no longer, since a principle must be the principle of some thing or things.
~ Aristotle
For to define the infinite you must use quantity in your formula, but not substance or quality. If then Being is both substance and quantity, it is two, not one: if only substance, it is not infinite and has no magnitude; for to have that it will have to be a quantity. Again, (5) 'one' itself, no less than 'being', is used in many senses, so we must consider in what sense the word is used when it is said that the All is one.
~ Aristotle
It is, (10) then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.
~ Aristotle
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
One soul is enough, I know, to pay the debt for thousands, if one will go to the gods in all good faith.
~ Sophocles
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
~ James Hillman
Even an imposter knows the one truth they cant hide is love
~ Derrick david
In eternityWe live. Come from. Life is one Series of footprints.
~ Shashi, Songs of the Mist
Fight, Zinnia, for your soul. You only have one, and one shall remain once you've escaped his clutches... Do not give up on yourself, for strength... it comes... from God.
~ K. Weikel, Building Monsters
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one--if he had the power--would be justified in silencing mankind.
~ John Stuart Mill
Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.
~ John Taliaferro
Gaea is one. Gaea is alive. We live inside her.
~ John Varley
That the one could intensify the other had never occurred to them; and since the embodiment came before the recognition of the truth, it seemed a discovery that belonged to them alone.
~ John Williams
And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"..."But I thought it was just the one time?
~ Ellen Schreiber
I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation just because you've never been denied. You try to say you've done it all before, baby, you know that you just get tired. Yet everybody loves you so much, girl, I just don't know how you stand the strain. Oh, I, I'm the one who's here tonight, and I don't wanna do it all in vain.
~ Elvis Costello
I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.
~ Mickey Hart
People are always asking me for my favorite recipe, and I have to say, 'I don't really have one.'
~ Lesley Nicol
If there's anybody who is recognized as the one guy who has stymied Alaskan development, it's Bill Clinton.
~ Lisa Murkowski
The one fiction show I watch is 'Hannibal.' I love it!
~ Sophie Turner