Knut Hamsun quote: "There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's lik...
FERGIE

Jane Heard.
ONE

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else'...
MAHATMA GANDHI

Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca...
GEORGE ELIOT

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There'...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
PETER JENNINGS

For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; ...
JACK MCBRAYER

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with one...
BRITTANY MURPHY

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself sho...
EPICTETUS

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be maste...
D. H. LAWRENCE

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself b...
JOHN BURNSIDE

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure w...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's bett...
SIMON KINBERG

The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere,...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
ALEXANDER SMITH

What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections...
T.S. ELIOT

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradicti...
AYN RAND

There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these...
MARIA MONTESSORI

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is no...
AGA KHAN IV

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, th...
HAROLD BRODKEY

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an int...
JIMMY CONNORS

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is...
D. H. LAWRENCE

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a l...
DENNIS QUAID

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates o...
CAMILLE PISSARRO

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live the...
NATURI NAUGHTON

One has to move from one's comfort zone to challenge oneself.
DULQUER SALMAAN

If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make...
DAK PRESCOTT

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left...
JELLO BIAFRA

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you ma...
HANK AARON

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get mar...
CLINT EASTWOOD

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's lu...
IRIS MURDOCH

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one...
ALAN PATON

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the...
AARON SPELLING

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in f...
MARLO THOMAS

If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and de...
KEVIN SYSTROM

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell...
JAMES M. BUCHANAN

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.
JASON BEHR

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that t...
DAVID RAKOFF

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one...
GEORGE ORWELL

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong w...
GARRISON KEILLOR

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees o...
RENE MAGRITTE

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who ...
KERRY CONDON

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, a...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is ...
EDVARD MUNCH

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as nece...
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant de...
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's u...
P. J. O'ROURKE

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky b...
FEIST

I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some...
JULIANNE MOORE

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doi...
HALDAN KEFFER HARTLINE

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
BLAISE PASCAL

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
BLAISE PASCAL

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif...
BLAISE PASCAL

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but...
EMMA THOMPSON

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. ...
JAMES C. DOBSON

I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone...
DAVID FURNISH

I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and be...
MATTHEW UNDERWOOD

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give u...
FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk...
NELSON MANDELA

Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of ...
ROLLO MAY

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career....
LAURA LEIGHTON

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do ...
SAM DEW

Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but t...
MICHAEL C. HALL

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine....
TAYLOR SWIFT

Being so doopity! It's awesome. And I think it's just one of the reasons that people should ...
JOHN CENA

I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'M...
DERF

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in ...
ELI ROTH

I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha...
OLIVIA COLMAN

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in ...
BRITTANY MURPHY

Just in general as a person, not necessarily as a songwriter, being in cities wasn't the right f...
JUSTIN VERNON

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
ELIZABETH ARDEN

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There&#...
MARGARET CHO

'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go...
PRINCE

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is sile...
EMILY CARR

Dream your own dreams,
be your own person and image,
no matter the extremes.
KAYEC JONES

One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my card...
KEN CUCCINELLI

There's nothing I like more than to have one of our movies run, and then I go to the ladies'...
KATHLEEN KENNEDY

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground...
MARCEL PROUST

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that ...
ALAN PRICE

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the ...
HANK HANEY

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be tr...
ROBERT COLLIER

One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it...
CHAD CHANNING

If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make ...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF

One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinv...
TAYLOR SWIFT

If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask onesel...
BOB CORKER

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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