Top 100 Just One Thing Quotes
#1. Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
Elsa Maxwell
#2. If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.
Christopher Hitchens
#3. I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
Rachel Roy
#4. In reality, anybody who's a woman knows that you've got your good days and bad days, just like anybody else. I've been lucky with a lot of shows that I've worked on, where they are comfortable with the idea that women are not just one thing, and we can be contradiction.
Jessalyn Gilsig
#5. Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice ... And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.
Lucy Calkins
#6. I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'
Emmet Gowin
#7. There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
Wernher Von Braun
#8. To withstand the nothing, it really takes everything.
But it can also take just one thing: a heartbeat in truth beside you; when the mask has been removed.
(Soar)
Soar
#9. It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.
Nancy Hale
#10. Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.
Peter York
#11. Video games are meant to be just one thing. Fun. Fun for everyone!
Satoru Iwata
#12. A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.
Gong Li
#13. Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.
Harry Browne
#14. ... You don't want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?
Sarah Dessen
#15. Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.
Gene Simmons
#16. Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?
Leila Sales
#17. Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only in the unfaith of man, does life recognize any sway of death.
George MacDonald
#18. I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.
David Hyde Pierce
#19. Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
#20. I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.
Erykah Badu
#21. Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.
Stephenie Meyer
#22. I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
Bob Gibson
#23. 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
#24. There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.
Margaret Atwood
#25. I think a person who wants too much is asking to be disappointed ... I'd like to be good at just one thing.
Alyson Hagy
#26. I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam's the only one that's had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad.
Latrell Sprewell
#27. If you feel just one thing in your life-that life is nothing but the gift of God-you are divine and the most courageous person. Try it! Try it as a thought. The moment you feel that life is a gift, you'll become prosperous.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#28. If I had to teach someone just one thing about lip color it would be this: Find a lipstick that looks good on your face when you are wearing absolutely no makeup.
Bobbi Brown
#29. Birds Fly in the Sky, because they don't know how to Cry! They know just one thing, to Sing! -RVM
R.v.m.
#30. We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
John Berger
#31. When you focus on just one thing at a time, without rushing or procrastinating, you cultivate a sense of timeless awareness that creates feelings of calm and well-being.
Deepak Chopra
#32. Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.
Marcel Wanders
#33. I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician
Charlie Chaplin
#34. Single-minded dedication to just one thing, without rest, respite or distraction, is only conducive to migraines, not productivity.
Claire North
#35. I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.
Chuck Palahniuk
#36. - I want to atone -
He couldn't of course. Nothing he did now could atone fully for what he had done. But he could do one thing. Just one thing.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#37. There's just one thing I want to know."
Julian nodded. "Anything."
"When you peed and had sex outside, it wasn't at the same time, was it? Because that'd be really
nasty.
S.J. Frost
#38. Is that the only way?" Tom asked her. "Vik and I tried net-sending with a thought interface during Programming once, but I couldn't concentrate on just one thing at a time."
Vik nodded. "His programming questions were always like, 'Vik, how do steak boobs function?
S.J. Kincaid
#39. I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.
Damian Barr
#40. The Rock has just one thing to say to you: poontang your ass on out of here!
Dwayne Johnson
#41. Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.
Rachel Hartman
#42. It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.
Mika.
#43. Life is a process
just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.
Richard Carlson
#44. About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
Joan Of Arc
#45. Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.
Ally Walker
#46. You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
Napoleon Hill
#47. In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
Barry Bostwick
#48. I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.
Katy Perry
#49. I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things.
Jack O'Brien
#50. Four: I don't want to be just one thing. I can't be. I want to be brave, and I want to be selfless, intelligent, and honest and kind. Well, I'm still working on kind.
Veronica Roth
#51. If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic,
Maria Rodale
#52. You don't need to know how to do everything, just one thing well,
Frankie Love
#53. Even if it is just one thing or person you have to be thankful for, that is enough.
Jaycee Dugard
#54. Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
Sada Thompson
#55. Surely, things will get better," she said. I wanted to know just one thing. Who the hell was "Shirley," and why should I believe her?
Jane Curtin
#56. You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.
Stephen Root
#57. I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.
Althea Gibson
#58. There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#59. Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.
Walt Disney Company
#60. It's difficult to plan this kind of career. You just need to wait and be picky and try not to commit to just one thing. I'll have to see what's next, see what happens, and see what the future brings.
Elena Anaya
#61. You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.
Ned Overend
#62. I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.
Greta Gerwig
#63. I hope that when you have the chance to crack your world open wide with new possibilities, to meet new people, and to take a turn down an unexpected, new road, you do just one thing: carpe the hell out of that diem.
Alexandra Bracken
#64. I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.
Elia Suleiman
#65. God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
Francis Chan
#67. The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.
Jim Henson
#68. My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
Writer's Digest Books
#69. A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.
Monica Bellucci
#70. I love music. I love filmmaking. I love law enforcement. I love doing a lot of the green work that I do, the charity work that I do, and I don't think that any one person has to be just one thing.
Steven Seagal
#71. I don't want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.
Veronica Roth
#72. Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...
Joseph Delaney
#73. Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both.
Rachel Hartman
#74. I don't like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.
Judi Shekoni
#75. Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
Umberto Eco
#76. Ravn had given me much advice and all of it was good, but now, in the night wind, I remembered just one thing he had said to me on the night we first met, something I had never forgotten.
Never, he had said, never fight Ubba.
Bernard Cornwell
#77. If out of reading this book you get just one thing - an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people's point of view, and see things from their angle - if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career. Looking
Dale Carnegie
#78. I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
Jennifer Lopez
#79. There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.
Sarah Silverman
#80. Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.
Bill Hicks
#81. Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things
Brock Lesnar
#82. Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don't forget that he never promised he'd say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing ...
That he cares ... That is all. Nothing else.
Madeleine L'Engle
#83. So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
Margaret Atwood
#84. I'm letting go of all my lonely yesterdays, I've forgiven myself for the mistakes I've made, now there's just one thing, the only thing I wanna do. I wanna love somebody, love somebody like you.
Keith Urban
#85. I'm all for setting goals and making plans for the lives we want to become a reality. I love vision statements and life maps, but I have also discovered the power of a woman who does just one thing.
Nicki Koziarz
#86. No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version.
Patrick Ness
#87. I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.
Kyla Pratt
#88. I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.
Terry Gilliam
#89. There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole
#90. It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain.
Willa Cather
#91. Just one thing has to change, and that's me staying healthy.
Brandon Jacobs
#92. Life is too short to be spent doing just one thing!
Radkris
#93. The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
Jim Clark
#94. Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Martina Navratilova
#95. Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.
Arundhati Roy
#96. I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.
Wendy Williams
#97. My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she's been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman ... and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because ... she probably just had too much energy.
Blake Lively
#98. I fully expect the police to come after me. To which I have just one thing to say: good luck.
J.D. Cunegan
#99. Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.
Mike Singletary
#100. I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing.
Tim Tharp
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