All Quotes

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
‐‐ George Orwell

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
‐‐ David Hilbert

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.
‐‐ Delroy Lindo

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
‐‐ Helen Keller

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
‐‐ Eduardo Chillida

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
‐‐ George Carlin

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
‐‐ Francoise Sagan

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
‐‐ Georgia O'Keeffe

One can not be just if one is not humane.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

One can not impede scientific progress.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
‐‐ Isabelle Adjani

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
‐‐ Mark Thomas

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.
‐‐ Mia Maestro

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.
‐‐ Romy Schneider

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.
‐‐ John Sharp

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
‐‐ John Berger

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
‐‐ Max Weber

One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high.
‐‐ Simon Conway Morris

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.
‐‐ Robert Rauschenberg

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
‐‐ Jimmy Sangster

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
‐‐ Alfred Nobel

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.
‐‐ Morarji Desai

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
‐‐ Guillaume Apollinaire

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.
‐‐ Shelley Fabares

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
‐‐ Graham Nash

One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
‐‐ Madison Smartt Bell

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
‐‐ Susan Rice

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!
‐‐ Kapil Dev

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.
‐‐ Lee Radziwill

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
‐‐ Gioachino Rossini

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
‐‐ Philip Zimbardo

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
‐‐ Kai Bird

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
‐‐ Georgia O'Keeffe

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
‐‐ Louis-Ferdinand Celine