Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
ONE WORD One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to get over.
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
For the sake of one good action, a hundred evil ones should be forgotten.
A good bell is heard from far, a bad one still further.
The gold of the new world has ruined the old one.
He who does not know one thing knows another
Better one day a man than ten days a woman.
In large rivers one finds big fish but one may also be drowned.
Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!
Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones.
Even when one sleeps one is not wasting one's time.
I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain as to the cause of one's queer behavior and strange sufferings, impute to one a mysteriousness often subt...
It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others...
Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes pl...
The world today is fast becoming one.Humanity is one, God is one and mankind are all part of one human family. all Religions are connected, and they all lead to faith in the one God, no matter what name we give him he is but one God.
Our purpose is not Oneness but to realize Oneness. Oneness itself is not something to be achieved. We are One as spirit already. What we are working on is to remember and accept this Oneness.
No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, 'You can't be a fashion designer.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap-dancing lessons.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy a...
