Top 100 As One Quotes
#1. I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
Tawni O'Dell
#2. In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.
Ritchie Blackmore
#3. No mountain of doom,
Just foothills of Ferninand.
Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.
Megan Frazer Blakemore
#4. Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.
John F. Kennedy
#5. In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
Samuel R. Delany
#7. When the lord says you must 'become as one of these little ones,' I take Him to mean you must be stripped of all the accretions of smugness and pretence and triviality.
Marilynne Robinson
#8. Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
Jimmy Page
#9. I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it ... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.
David Eddings
#11. I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
Virginia Woolf
#12. But Drew liked the simplicity of her downsized life, this quieter existence. One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, necessarily.
Daphne Kalotay
#13. During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
Stephen Ambrose
#14. Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.
Silvano Arieti
#15. I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.
Ulysses S. Grant
#16. The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
Anthony De Mello
#17. One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth's final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.
Rick Yancey
#19. What had happened was going to be always on me, in me, as permanent as one of Roberta's tattoos. "Dolores," I said. I repeated my name over and over until it sounded warped and unreal. I was never going to be myself again.
Wally Lamb
#20. If you ask me, any religion that takes the end of the world as one of its central tenets is more or less bogus. In my view, the only thing that ever 'ends' is the individual.
Haruki Murakami
#21. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame.
Elie Wiesel
#22. Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.
George Boateng
#23. Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.
Sydney J. Harris
#24. For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
Jeremy Hardy
#25. If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.
Louis O. Kelso
#26. A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.
Jonathan Galassi
#27. One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
Eugen Kogon
#28. For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
Robert Greene
#29. Life is not always fun but in the scheme of things , it becomes more reliable , admirable , dependable and fashionable as one progresses daily
Osunsakin Adewale
#30. He raised one eyebrow. Infuriatingly. Then he looked me up and down, but not in a meaningful way like Jake used to, more as if i was a horse, which was weird because he hadn't yesterday when i was actually dressed as one.
Diane Messidoro
#32. For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter.
Dada Bhagwan
#33. An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.
Steven Pinker
#34. Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber
#35. It is sinful for one to not strive to become the best version of oneself as one would be robbing oneself and the world of the wonderful talents, love, peace, and joy that was never unleashed from within oneself.
Shay Dawkins
#36. It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.
John Speed
#37. Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#38. But there was so much injustice. As soon as one field of hatred and oppression was burned, another crop came into harvest. It never ended and Jane grew tired.
Walidah Imarisha
#39. I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
Lady Gaga
#40. I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history. We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war.
John McCain
#41. They said time changed people, and it was true. We weren't the same two people we used to be, but somehow we evolved as one. Even with hundreds of miles between us. But
Brittainy C. Cherry
#42. As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#43. As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation - but steady every-day goodness is beyond me. I must be a moral kangaroo!
Elizabeth Gaskell
#44. I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.
Duane G. Carey
#45. It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
Jim Gerlach
#46. Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form - spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved
George MacDonald
#48. An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.
Paul Reps
#49. The plague had killed far more females than males. As one of the few women in The New America, especially an educated, civilized woman, I'd always supposed I was ever man's type.
Anna Carey
#50. Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso
#51. Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.
Gore Vidal
#52. One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.
Stanislaw Lem
#53. Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
G.H. Hardy
#54. As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
Basil Rathbone
#55. There is revenge and then there is justice. Sometimes the two are met as one.
-Christopher
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
#56. Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
Henry James
#57. All I truly know is that we rise and fall as one, one colored family living next door to one white family. We may not know the way through the forest, but we can pick each other up when we fall, and we will arrive together." -
Colson Whitehead
#58. Evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity, one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.
Michael Shermer
#59. All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
Voltaire
#60. Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
Henry Miller
#61. As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.
Anzia Yezierska
#62. One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.
Pope John Paul II
#63. Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet ... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.
Octavio Paz
#64. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one," wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."31
Gordon S. Wood
#65. There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.
Alister MacKenzie
#66. When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
Haniel Long
#67. 'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.
Tom Hanks
#68. As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new and better formulation, but may easily lead to endless debates and general confusion.
Adolf Hitler
#69. If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.
Clement Of Alexandria
#70. In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
Booker T. Washington
#71. Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good.
William T. Vollmann
#72. It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
Sophocles
#74. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
William Hazlitt
#75. The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
Anais Nin
#76. The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
Georg Simmel
#77. As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be.
Rory McIlroy
#78. You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#79. Fasting is meant to take you, temporarily, out of the realm of the physical and focus your attention heavenward; as one Jewish guide to fasting puts it, 'at the heart of this practice is a desire to shift our attention away from our immediate needs and to focus on more spiritual concerns.
Lauren F. Winner
#80. We'll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we'll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven't seen her for some time
Alexandre Dumas
#81. I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary.. I'm protesting anything.. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.
Paul Crouch
#83. Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
Jane Austen
#84. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.
Joseph Addison
#85. There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow
#86. Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#87. Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
Soren Kierkegaard
#88. Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning ...
R.D. Blackmore
#89. Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.
Marilyn Manson
#90. There are many faiths, but the spirit is one - in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone believes himself, all will be united; everyone be himself and all will be as one.
Leo Tolstoy
#91. As yet, there is no final reckoning of the wealth the Valley has created. Hundreds of billions of dollars, certainly; perhaps even trillions. In any case, 'The greatest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet,' as one local capitalist puts it. The
Michael Lewis
#92. Akiko Tsuruga ranks as one of the top organists around today.
Scott Yanow
#93. Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
Marianne Williamson
#94. Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun.
Libba Bray
#95. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Gautama Buddha
#96. There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.
Peggy Ashcroft
#97. As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
Oscar Wilde
#98. One forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#99. You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.
Grete Waitz
#100. I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
