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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.


Freya Stark

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ONE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN The only man who could be worse than a bad woman is one who loves to see his face in one or the othe...
ANUJ SOMANY Laughter is illusion… But THE BIGGEST ONE, which you can ever encounter in your life.
DEYTH BANGER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Please don't sing and dance," I whisper, but it's too late. He's snapping his fingers and doing this...
C.M. STUNICH There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked abo...
OSCAR WILDE There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked ab...
OSCAR WILDE (OSCAR FINGAL O'FLAHERTIE WILDE) Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.
ROMANO PRODI To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
ELAINE DUNDY There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
OSCAR WILDE To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
ELIZABETH BERG 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 It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. St...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and...
HAN SUYIN . . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and pro...
HAN SUYIN There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...
OSCAR WILDE We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is a...
DALLAS WILLARD No one was more surprised than me,
DAVID BALTIMORE I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
MADAME NECKAR To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
ELAINE DUNDY Someone. Everyone. Anyone. No-one. One. One can't be everyone, but there isn't more than one everyon...
WILL ADVISE The more one learns about him, ... one is surprised that he's in that job in the first place.
WILLIAM KRISTOL But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no...
C.S. LEWIS 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 There is only one thing better than being happy, and you'll find out about that later!
JOSH BUNCH A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who ...
LANA TURNER Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamon...
GRAHAM GREENE If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
KATHARINE GRAHAM No one was more surprised than we were,
DAVID BONE There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which ...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prost...
GAIL SHEEHY If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
KATHARINE GRAHAM The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman neve...
ROBERT SMITH SURTEES Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.
CARRIE ANN INABA May you be of service to mankind.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he...
MORDECAI RICHLER One in All
All in One--
If only this is realized,
No more worry about your not being ...
EDWARD CONZE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.
PATRICIA BRIGGS If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans p...
TEENA BOOTH The fact is that no one is hated openly so much as one who is true to oneself consistently and no on...
ANUJ SOMANY There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...
OSCAR WILDE To say that a man can not love one woman at a time is ridiculous. It is like saying a musician needs...
UNKNOWN There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the p...
GAIL SHEEHY The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper...
GWEN STEFANI There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all ...
BOBBY FLAY No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
AFRICAN PROVERB No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
UNKNOWN Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more t...
DAN CHAON ~ Always keep the one that makes you better, the one that makes you look within, the one that won't ...
NICOLE STRANTZ War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is b...
ANSEL ADAMS There can’t always be two Kings. It should always be ONE KING and A QUEEN. One is higher than the...
MARVIN MAKO ANTENOR To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true,...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always ...
ROY T. BENNETT The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful...
ELYSE M. FITZPATRICK No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
CLAUDIUS No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
APPIUS CLAUDIUS A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN All men have a soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one...
HECTOR TOBAR There is a realization that no one can be complacent about supplies.
GEOFF PYNE Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up ...
KAREN M. MCMANUS To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert...
ADAM CLARKE Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exer...
ANTHONY CARMONA One is always greater than hundred because without one there is no hundred
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