Ones - Quotes
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one`s intelligence.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one`s own Trojan horse.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between.
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
It`s the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they`re teaching.
We are the angry and the desperate
The hungry, and the cold
We are the ones...
When you look at the history of what we know about the world, you see a noticeable pattern. Natural explanations of things have been replacing supernatural explanations of them. Like a steamroller. Why the Sun rises and sets. Where thunder and lightning come from. Why people get sick. Why people look like their parents. How the complexity of life came into being. I could go on and on. All these things were once explained by religion. But as we understood the world better, and learned to observe it more carefully, the explanations based on religion were replaced by ones based on physical cause and effect. Consistently. Thoroughly. Like a steamroller.