Quotes About One's

to be able to enter into the stillness that is one's own true nature, one must break up constantly the addiction and fascination with being something.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

At this time, about the only thing that was still regarded as perverted was a public display of affection toward one's wife.

One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.

There, he said. You see? You see how this is bad for one's billiard game? This thinking? The French have come into my house to mutilate my billiard game. No evil is beyond them.

Graves: It's going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one's free.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

Well, if it is snobbish to exercise one's taste, then I admit I am a snob.

One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.

What one is muddled about may well be the consequence of one's specific relation to society, politics, and history.