On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
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Quote:- On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]
Author:- Peter O'Donnell
Category:- time
Quote:- On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science
Quote:- On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.I wipe them away with a black woolly gloveAnd try not to notice I've fallen in loveOn Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink.But the juke-box inside me is playing a songThat says something different. And when was it wrong?On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hairI am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care.the head does its best but the heart is the boss-I admit it before I am halfway across
Serious Concerns
Author:- Wendy Cope
Category:- poetry
Quote:- On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Author:- Steve Maraboli
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Once a day has begun eventfully, it generally carries on being every bit as lively.
Tubutsch
Author:- Albert Ehrenstein
Category:- hope
Quote:- Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
The Improvement Of The Mind To Which Are Added A Discourse On The Education Of Children
Author:- Isaac Watts
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Once a man has purged away "the terror in the soul" by acknowledging that death "is nothing to us" and hell simply a psychological projection of present torments and frustrations, he is ready for the happy life - pleasure, a minimum of pain, freedom from neurotic fears, and spiritual composure.
Author:- Epicurus
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.
Author:- Socrates
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.
Author:- Adam Kirsch
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Once adversity reveals your strength, and you know what you can endure, you become an irrepressible force of nature.
Author:- Abigail Damoah
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Once again, she’d thought, Why the hell not? and let him park an emerald on her finger.
The Rose Code
Author:- Kate Quinn
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Once could not learn history from architecture any more than once could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
1984
Author:- George Orwell
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Optimism
Author:- Helen Keller
Category:- hope
Quote:- Once I used to hide in my shellIn the depths, I was safe.I could hear the echo of distant wavesbut it is also quite bizarreone day it became too smallI had to see the worldnow the shell holds nothingbut the echoes of what was.
Author:- Rolf van der Wind
Category:- Life
Quote:- Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.
The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
Author:- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer.
Walden Two
Author:- B.F. Skinner
Category:- science
Quote:- Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.
Author:- Sanober Khan
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life love knocks our doors, enters our lives & changes it forever. You start believing in dreams, you start making wishes & you start to trust your heart even more! That love holds your hands & makes you feel you are safer than ever; that love makes you believe that nothing can go wrong now; and oh that warm hug, which makes you want to spend your entire life then & there! That’s when you realise you are not living an ordinary life, but it’s a fairytale!
VoiceMates - A Novel
Author:- Anamika Mishra
Category:- Love