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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.


Gustave Flaubert

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ONE 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 She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I know a journalist when I see one.
LUCY DALGLISH It's one thing to say when it's going to rain, but how do we know when there's going to be a flood? ...
INEZ FUNG When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that...
NEVE CAMPBELL She's always been the one to volunteer when others don't.
PHYLLIS JACKSON When you're 0-10, we only have one place to go and that's up. You have to have some type of motivati...
CHRIS CAPKO It's just going to be one great puzzle when I get it all done.
KEITH DOWNEY Just one. When your ex-wife remarries.
RALPH KINER This is one of the things you hope for when you run an observatory like Integral.
CHRISTOPH WINKLER When one half goes, the other one must always remain whole. This is one of the rules of the game.
MARIANA FULGER And when they passed by them, they winked at one another.
QURAN One of the things they have got to do _ we've got to plead for _ is to make sure that when these hos...
JOHN MATESSINO When one of our guys puts himself out there,
JACK DEL RIO Sheila is one of those individuals who, when you give it to her, she's going to go line by line. She...
FRANK MARTIN She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,
SURANNE JONES And when those who disbelieve see you, they do not take you but for one to be scoffed at: Is this he...
QURAN And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said,...
BIBLE It's easier when you can have one that's totally better than the other,
RICH RODRIGUEZ Every one is wise when the mischief is done.
SPANISH PROVERB When he first got here, he said he had some nastiness to him, and that was one thing he was going to...
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON When they have interacted, it's been because one division didn't like what another division was doin...
MICHAEL GOODMAN That is one of the Laws of Usenet, up there with 'You can tell when a Usenet discussion is getting o...
DAVID GOLDFARB What happens when we don't have a year like this one?
RED CAVANEY The thing about Ruth jerseys is that there aren't very many of them. When one surfaces, you go for i...
HOWARD ROSENKRANTZ What one hopes for is always better than what one has
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB 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 One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
BALTHUS When one must, one can.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
AMBROSE BIERCE When a half goes, the other one must always remain a whole. This is one of the rules of the game.
MARIANA FULGER To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one riv...
MATTHEW FOX There were times when I was in the mist of the crowd and found I was the only one who didn't have a ...
CLYDE HUGHES My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demons...
NATALIE PORTMAN When I did the first one I only signed up for the first one 'cause I didn't want to be contractually...
MATT DAMON This is something very, very different for them. One of them asked 'what is that?' when they smelled...
STEPHEN FITZGERALD He comes to me when I call him. One day I was by the mailbox and I called for him, and he came runni...
CHERYL PEYERK He's been there for me when I needed him. He's like a brother. We just have a love for one another.
CARL JACKSON It's tough. They were getting after it and when they got a lead, we get one dimensional.
JAKE PLUMMER 'Tis good to go on foot when one hath a horse
FRENCH PROVERB We sang every one of the operettas -- straight through -- when we were in Rockville, Maryland, ... W...
DAVID SMITH Honey, I was 17 when I met him. But I was the last one to see him before he died because we stayed f...
LIZA MINNELLI You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blo...
JERRY SEINFELD It's always been special when we go to Peoria, but I would be a liar if I said this one wasn't speci...
KEN CRAWFORD They came out in a zone, and the girls were open. One thing I tell the girls, when they have a good ...
CHRIS KEMPF One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE That was very uplifting. It's nice to get one early. When you get them that early, it put them on th...
STEPHEN WEISS One of the important things was when it was 0-0 and we killed the five-on-three and they didn't scor...
DOMINIK HASEK He wrote some to me on different occasions. He wrote one when I turned 16. That one is really very d...
DIANE JACOBOWITZ She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a consci...
YANCEY LITTLE David's one of those guys who has a knack for getting a hit when we need it.
PAUL LO DUCA When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It's really not one of those things that aches or hurts when you're not doing anything,
MARC BULGER A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
WALTER WINCHELL We sang every one of the operettas -- straight through -- when we were in Rockville, Maryland. We sa...
DAVID SMITH You don't get opportunities very often and when you get one and get it taken back, it's a little agg...
TERRY PHILLIPS We'll be actively pursuing things, but when it comes down to it we might not even do one, ... What h...
BRENDAN TAMAN I'm one of those guys who knows when something serious is going on. And this is a lot more serious t...
RAY RHODES When it (the price) falls to between one or up to two times the price of steel then it (aluminum) wi...
MARK WHITE When I talked to evacuees, one of the things that struck me was that so many of them were saying, 'A...
WADE HORN It's hard to know which way to go when you get blindsided by something like this. It's literally one...
AL HARRINGTON She was the only one that didn't react to me when I was in Nanny mode.
EMMA THOMPSON One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one...
CHARLED PÉGUY One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for ...
REINALDO ARENAS how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one h...
ALBERT CAMUS When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is ever...
CLARA KENSIE That’s how relationships work – when one person is blind, the other must see for them. When one ...
SARA RAASCH The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is heal...
DR. ROLLO MAY The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is heal...
ROLLO MAY But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.
JOSEPH CONRAD When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER We don't have a host and it's hard to vote yourself off the island when you're the only one on it.
TOM HANKS When one door closes another one falls on top of you.
ANGUS DEAYTON It's a challenge and I'm anxious to see how we rise to that. It's one thing when you are hunting. It...
C. VIVIAN STRINGER That was one of our masters. I'm not sure when it was recorded.
JESSI COLTER It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
JOHN BULWER It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody
JULES RENARD Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
KENNETH KOCH It's not a question of if but when. It may be not this strand of virus but another one down the road...
PAUL SWIERGOSZ When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, ...
BIBLE

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soul, finally come...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Open them, weak yet proud man, pitiful ant that struggles to crawl over its
speck of dust! You ...
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-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.
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Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like s...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ..She still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did ever...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
FLAUBERT Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
FLAUBERT Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
GUSTAV FLAUBERT Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, t...
GUSTAVE MEYRINK I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
GUSTAVE MOREAU I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense ...
GUSTAVE COURBET No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, b...
GUSTAVE MOREAU The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it i...
GUSTAVE COURBET Fine art is knowledge made visible.
GUSTAVE COURBET Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...
GUSTAVE COURBET I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
GUSTAVE COURBET