One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir
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JULIETTE BINOCHE Jane Heard.
ONE One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR 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 One is born an individual; one becomes a statistic.
MARTY RUBIN Every once in a while, people step up. They rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you. And ...
ONE TREE HILL What kids are doing are killing themselves
They feel they have no control of their prisoner's c...
TWENTY ONE PILOTS There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a c...
EMILE ZOLA What one does, one becomes
SPANISH PROVERB One is born to be a great dancer.
GEORGE BALANCHINE and this one might not be such a little one for everybody.
JOE KENNEDY I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see...
OSCAR WILDE When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me t...
JERRY HALL You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.
CONNIE MACK I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE One who serves the Immaculate Lord becomes immaculate.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich
SARAH BERNHARDT As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
MARCEL PROUST I really do not take one position over another,
ROBIN GREEN We can't not make deliveries, so we're trying to do as much as we can while in one area and try to c...
DAVE ALLEN I am not one to reminisce,
LINDSAY DAVENPORT You're not going to be able to find one thing that is going to be the be-all and end-all in obesity ...
CATHY NONAS I am not swayed one way or the other on that,
TRENT LOTT Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not
EURIPIDES But not one that's scary.
SIMON COWELL I'm not going to wait for anything else for you all to do, not one thing more, ... There's never bee...
CARL LEWIS I´m not going to wait for anything else for you all to do, not one thing more,
CARL LEWIS I admit it, I am not one of the great linguists.
GEORGE W. BUSH I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman!...
SEAN CONNERY You never know, this could be my last one, ... Not because I want it to be, but who knows what can h...
MARY PIERCE I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM.
WALTER PIDGEON Hitler not from a woman is born, but from the men bitterness.(Hitler n'est pas né d'une femme, - Ma...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Mi...
MARGARET HILLIS One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHY ...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
JULIA CHILD To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
JOHN STUART MILL One way to look at it is that the need to respond aggressively is born out of the audacity of the De...
NICOLLE WALLACE “All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."
MARQUIS DE SADE No-one is born with perfect eyebrow
LINDA EVANGELISTA No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
DREW HOUSTON Every minute dies a man, And one and one-sixteenth is born
CHARLES BABBAGE If all become one, each becomes none, but if one is all, then each becomes everything.
JIM GENOVESE Product usually becomes tight when they go from one product to another. But it's not a big deal. We ...
TEX PITFIELD There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
KATHARINE GRAHAM One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.
LEONORA CARRINGTON I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH We believe a marriage is between one man and one woman.
KEITH LEONARD Laughter is illusion… But THE BIGGEST ONE, which you can ever encounter in your life.
DEYTH BANGER One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tel...
OSCAR WILDE An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
PETER DIAMANDIS First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.
MARTY RUBIN One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman ...
JOHN ERSKINE There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman i...
JOHN ERSKINE Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.
VINCENT CANBY No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circum...
VICTORIA AVEYARD One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite d...
PABLO PICASSO We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Each one of those drops becomes an impassable barrier for fish,
SCOTT HOLMES Being born in a stable does not make one a horse
ARTHUR WELLESLEY Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot mak...
ABHIJIT NASKAR If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
KATHARINE GRAHAM Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.
MURRAY ROTHBARD That was one I did not expect anything to happen.
DAN WINZENRIED And when those who disbelieve see you, they do not take you but for one to be scoffed at: Is this he...
QURAN I try not to think about it. It's the last place I was and it's the one I expect to have the most me...
BRIAN ROBERTS I don't know what the future's going to bring one way or the other, ... I'm not into speculating or ...
LOU PINIELLA Well, there's not one, but two. And they are powder and lipstick.
COLLIER STRONG One swallow does not make a summer
PROVERB I'm gonna say something unpopular here, but I'm the one with the microphone, and you're not.
PETE WENTZ Two cannot fall out if one does not choose
SPANISH PROVERB Inexpressible Love:To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am goi...
ROLAND BARTHES I'm not one for blaspheming -- but that one made me laugh.
MORGAN FREEMAN Look in a mirror and one thing's sure; what we see is not who we are.
RICHARD BACH Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.
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SIMONE ELKELES I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.
SIMONE ELKELES dear kiara,
The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose ...
SIMONE ELKELES Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL