If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Aldous Huxley
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ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
NANCY ASTOR Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking...
ALDOUS HUXLEY But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Lonely is the person who is no ones number 1
HELENE DEUTCH But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated.
"Why one makes such a fuss ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Without the True One, the false ones are bound and gagged and driven off.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another—
ALDOUS HUXLEY I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ...
THOMAS KRETSCHMANN Many times, we'd be the only ones out there.
CLIFFORD JORDAN Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.
TREVOR DUNN Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.
THOMAS MARS And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
DAR WILLIAMS You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
GEORGE HARRISON The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.
HENRY ROLLINS We're the only ones who have the antidote.
NESTOR SUAREZ As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido acondicionado para creerlas.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.
ALDOUS HUXLEY It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, ...
KEVIN KWAN I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.
JOYCE RACHELLE There are only two kinds of lamp shade customers. Ones who want exactly what they had before and one...
SHIRLEY ALLEN It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR It's going to be like two prize fighters. We're the small ones, they're the big ones.
HAYWOOD BOSTON It will be like playing ones vs. ones in training camp. The only thing is if I get to blitz I finall...
DARREN SHARPER I still get that. I tell them they are the ones with the accent, not me.
SEAN MCCURDY We think those may be the narrative ones,
GARY URTON Again, the only lists we have are ones we got legally.
JOHN MARSHALL Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS... God gives us enemies so we will appreciate those who love us.
JIM GENOVESE They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities
PHIL COLLINS You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Those are the ones that are most important and the easiest to solve.
DAVE BLOCK For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
GREG CHALMERS I'm one of the youngest ones,
CHRISTINA LEE They are hairy and like the ones in the movie arachnophobia.
SONYA BISSMIRE We're going back to remember the forgotten ones,
MERLE HAGGARD Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
KATE MORTON For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
BERNARD HOLLAND Many indicators have been winnowed down over the years to those that contribute the most. These are ...
JOHN CROSBY If you look at the quarters that have come out, the most striking ones are the ones that have very f...
MIKE JOURNEE Those [stocks] are the ones where you haven't had any pre-announcements.
CHUCK CARLSON It's been called, but the ones that you want to see called, probably don't get called. Put it that w...
BRET BIELEMA We were pulling out the close ones.
TIM CLELAND Some people get what they want, but then they act like they don't want what they're given. I think i...
TREVOR DRIGGERS There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And ...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of telev...
NEIL POSTMAN Old things are replaced by new ones but the only old ones that cant be replaced are the ones with so...
ANTHONY CASTILLO We're going to be investigating different channels of shopping in the upcoming years and the ones th...
HARVEY SEEGERS He kissed her as if he could breathe her in. Fierce kisses, hard ones, teasingly articulate ones, so...
LISA KLEYPAS There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
IAN MCSHANE There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in...
MARK KNOPFLER If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -...
JOHN STEINBECK If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - ...
JOHN STEINBECK If you believe the good ones, you'll believe the bad ones. It's better to look at 'em after you've f...
RIP TORN "Right people are not missed much when we are lonely, but they are more missed when we are surrounde...
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ Always be loyal to the ones you love. Because if you betray them, you've betrayed yourself..
KURT KROHN Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.
GEMMA BURGESS The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones tha...
HAMID KARZAI Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones th...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones the...
H. G. WELLS I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts....
BAI LING In this world there are two types of people: the ones who hurt, and the ones who are hurt. But if we...
KIARA S. MAHARAJ There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by t...
TOM CLANCY There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by th...
TOM CLANCY This is for all the nay-sayers. This is for all the ones that said there's no way this can continue ...
JOHN SMOLTZ The finest amusements are the most pointless ones
JACQUES CHARDONNE It's so good for the older swimmers to see the younger ones come such a long way.
JUAN DOMINGUEZ We are the only ones that do this. Most wouldn't let these wagons out, but we run them in the parade...
STAN GRIMES I may have two in the tub at a time. The little ones get in together. But the other ones take a show...
CYNTHIA LONG The true ones are absorbed into the True Lord.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB One bad general is better than two good ones
FRENCH PROVERB It's bad enough that we get tickets we are entitled to, but for the ones we didn't do anything wrong...
EDWARD GOLDMAN We're down to those we have no idea on. The ones that only DNA will get.
CHUCK SMITH We're a lot alike in that we've let a lot of close ones get away.
MIKE BREY Weekend is pointless unless you spend it with your loved ones...
JOHN B. BEJO We'd have a list of charities, and say, 'These are the ones that effective. Which ones do you want t...
WARRICK DUNN The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional
RICHARD BURTON The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
URSULA K. LEGUIN The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother-and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children
JIM HENSON On the other hand, you have different fingers
JACK HANDEY The very subsidies that they're concerned about are the ones that we're proposing to eliminate.
CHRISTIN BAKER We were the last ones off the course and it got a little windy toward the end. I think it played a l...
RANDY LEIN They don't happen a lot. For some guys, they never happen. You cherish the ones you had before, and ...
CURT SCHILLING Losing an unsaved loved one is hell, but that doesn’t mean that you need to go there yourself by t...
EVAN MINTON One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, neve...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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