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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.


Jean Anouilh

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ONE The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a...
MELVYN FANCY Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.
CASSANDRA CLARE Yet, the entire world is obligatory. Even getting married is obligatory. One cannot do without getti...
DADA BHAGWAN The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the worl...
FRANCES HARDINGE When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can f...
BRIAN JACQUES I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is...
MARTIN SELIGMAN First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface ...
GERI HALLIWELL There is neither this world nor the world beyond nor happiness for the one who doubts.
BHAGAVAD GITA Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a si...
CESARE PAVESE Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE big, medium and small.
DAY ONE Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
ONE DIRECTION Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipu...
MARK A. TIETJEN Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipu...
MARK A. TIETJEN Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The world is whole beyond human knowing.
WENDELL BERRY Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.
SPANISH PROVERB Two cannot fall out if one does not choose
SPANISH PROVERB A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this indi...
MARTIN BUBER Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow it...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single...
CESARE PAVESE Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ob...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ob...
LORD HALIFAX The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow every...
DAVID EDDINGS Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be marrie...
ROLLO MAY The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...
SAMUEL BECKETT The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else anoth...
SAMUEL BECKETT Sometimes...fear does not subside and...one must choose to do it afraid.
ELIZABETH ELLIOTT If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it m...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Actors are one family over the entire world.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Actors are one family over the entire world.
ALFRE WOODARD Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
THOMAS KENEALLY Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Thin...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAEL Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make
ARISTOTLE Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
JULES RENARD We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one l...
PATRICK NESS To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil...
PLATO Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond t...
WILLIAM BLAKE Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for...
CATE TIERNAN Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their...
HELEN HAYES But you must remember, unless one is guileless and broad-minded, one cannot have such faith.
RAMAKRISHNA The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain o...
HEATHER BREWER I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
OSCAR WILDE Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r...
FRANK HERBERT One cannot say with certainty that whether beauty, strength or intelligence, is boon or bane, until ...
DR HITESH C SHETH Today, one must pay for a world where there is nothing to buy.
GIRISH KOHLI The desert is an unpredictable place. One day you're sweating, the next you're freezing. One moment ...
DIANNA SKOWERA He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire hum...
BAHA'U'LLAH Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's a...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL One who cannot swim must not blame the water.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...
ABERJHANI It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also ...
ROGER EBERT You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire...
MICHAEL SANDERS I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It...
URSULA K. LE GUIN No one is nothing. Everyone has a place and a purpose. Some choose their purpose and others have it ...
E.J. DIVITT The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reac...
AUDRE LORDE The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains...
SWAMI BRAHMANADA How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
VAUGHN MONROE One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.
EDOUARD BOURDET Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from natio...
KOFI ANNAN I’m only going say this—love is a wild creature that cannot
be tamed. It’s unconditional....
CANDACE KNOEBEL Every man must choose his world.
A.W. TOZER One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
BALTHUS My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pr...
MAHATMA GANDHI The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep send...
JOHNNY CARSON But, there is one broad sky over all the world, and whether it be blue or cloudy, the same heaven be...
CHARLES DICKENS There is strength in unity. Have compassion, kindness, and love for one another. Instead of finding ...
AKIROQ BROST The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to someth...
HENRY MILLER There is strength in every struggle. Struggles create opportunities for you to become stronger, wise...
KEMI SOGUNLE One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.
JASON ZEBEHAZY It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for last...
BETTE DAVIS It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasti...
BETTE DAVIS

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