Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Stanislaw Lec

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
George Herbert

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
Jackie Collins

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
Tori Amos

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
Ayrton Senna

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Lane Allen

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
James Patterson

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.
Eli Whitney

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
Danielle Steel

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Nicolas de Chamfort

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld