Onestate Quotes & Sayings

Even among the ancients the more grown-up knew that the source of right is power, that right is a function of power. So take some scales and put on one side a gram, on the other a ton; on one side "I" and on the other "We," OneState. It's clear, isn't it? - to assert that "I" have certain "rights" with respect to the State is exactly the same as asserting that a gram weighs the same as a ton. That explains the way things are divided up: To the ton go the rights, to the gram the duties. And the natural path from nullity to greatness is this: Forget that you're a gram and feel yourself a millionth part of a ton. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance. — Bruce Lee

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days. — Joshua Slocum

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems. — Naguib Mahfouz

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. — Galen Rowell

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it. — C.S. Lewis

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home ... — Bertrand Russell

The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place. — Paul Watzlawick

For one second I stared at her like all the others as something that had dropped out of nowhere: She was no longer a number, she was simply a person; she existed as nothing more than the metaphysical substance of the insult committed against OneState. But then some one of her movements-turning, she twisted her hips to the left-and all at once I knew: I know her, I know that body resilient as a ship-my eyes, my lips, my hands know it-in one moment I was absolutely sure of it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Your intuition is the pilot's seat of your soul. If you don't trust it, you'll keep missing the most important of destinations in life. — Kaiden Blake

Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind, because that's what makes you different from everyone else. — Dave Thomas

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural working of the soul. — Walter Scott

He poured out the wine and took a deep draught of it, then loosened his neckcloth, an act of dinner table impropriety that would have affronted most other wives, but which I strongly encouraged. Brisbane had a very handsome throat. — Deanna Raybourn

I knew that now - that love wasn't something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried. — Jenny Han

I have been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart - by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again. — Bob Dole