One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
‐‐ Peter L. Berger
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
‐‐ Nathalie Sarraute
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
‐‐ Nathalie Sarraute
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
‐‐ Sunil Gangopadhyay
One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin
One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
‐‐ Boman Irani
One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.
‐‐ David Novak
One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.
‐‐ Evita Peron
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
‐‐ Golda Meir
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
‐‐ Jane Austen
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
‐‐ Erich Fromm
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
‐‐ Emma Goldman
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
‐‐ Anne Spencer
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
‐‐ Guru Nanak
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
‐‐ Rene Descartes
One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.
‐‐ Valentina Tereshkova
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
‐‐ Andrew Greeley
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
‐‐ Robert McNamara
One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.
‐‐ Eli Yishai
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle
One cannot have economic growth without security.
‐‐ John Bruton
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
‐‐ Bob Schaffer
One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.
‐‐ Len G. Murray
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
‐‐ Simone Weil
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
‐‐ Sholom Aleichem
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim
One cannot negotiate under fire.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
‐‐ Aaron Klug
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
‐‐ Athanasius
One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.
‐‐ Max Weber
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
‐‐ George Orwell
One cannot reject an entire nation because of the politics of its leader.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
‐‐ Robert Harris
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
‐‐ Anish Kapoor
One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf
One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.
‐‐ Eric Holder
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
‐‐ Jack London
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
‐‐ Jean Anouilh
One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
‐‐ Howard Zinn