Top 100 On One Quotes
#1. Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
Patricia Ireland
#2. Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
Gary Ross
#3. Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.
Steve Hockensmith
#4. There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
Caitlin Kittredge
#5. Damn Henry, you should think about being an underwear model instead of a CEO", Claire said, her voice a little breathier then she would have liked. Henry's mouth curled up on one side. " Shut up Claire", he mumbled, but his tone was amused.
Andria Large
#6. It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next.
Jim Butcher
#7. Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.
Jim Lehrer
#8. I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted.
Guy Pearce
#9. I loved the playfulness of fashion. I think maybe that's why I became an actress. You put on one outfit and feel one way, and another one will make you feel another way. Clothes are a wonderful tool.
Melissa McCarthy
#10. It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.
Paul McEuen
#11. I've grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat.
Keith Carradine
#12. a hero is someone who is hanging on one more minute and making the world a better place
Samuel Cole
#13. There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.
Alexander Ovechkin
#14. On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address.
Richard Engel
#15. The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.
Charles Platt
#16. At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Havelock Ellis
#17. I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.
David F. Swensen
#18. We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
#19. Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.
Dannion Brinkley
#20. Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.
James Montgomery
#21. The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. On one hand, it's nice on the other side. Secrets don't exist. There's nothing to ignore, and no destiny. On the other hand, the same thing is possible in life, if only we'd start paying attention to the right stuff.
A.S. King
#23. If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.
Ian Somerhalder
#24. I like my sex the way I play basketball, one on one with as little dribbling as possible.
Leslie Nielsen
#25. The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.
Bram Cohen
#26. I loved getting tutored and having that one-on-one attention that you sometimes do not get in regular school.
Tia Mowry
#27. Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third
Angelina Jolie
#28. Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.
David Moore
#29. The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing ...
Mooji
#30. Everything - our lives, our loves, our futures - hinges on one word alone: IF.
A.G. Howard
#31. And among them their satellites, on one of which is a part of nature that mirrors nature in itself,
A.C. Grayling
#32. In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an
unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#33. Did you know that on one of the islands of Orkney, in the North of Scotland, there are some runes that when translated turned out to be Viking graffiti? Eight feet up a wall it says "A tall Viking wrote this." You gotta love that.
Barbara Sher
#34. Learn how to pray with all your heart, applying all your energy to concentrate on one specific goal.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Two lovely berries molded on one stem: So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
William Shakespeare
#36. It's amazing to me; when your mind is fixed on one thing, you forget everything. You forget to eat and drink and care. The only thing I could never forget was him.
Mercy Cortez
#37. This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
Beau Willimon
#38. A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
Philip Zaleski
#39. I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#40. I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
Kate Voegele
#41. Those with whom one disagrees should not be regarded as enemies but rather as people who's views deserve careful examination and may shed light on one's own.
Tamara L. Roleff
#42. You little subs make me nervous. Being around you is too much like walking into a room filled with tiny kittens and trying not to step on one.
Cherise Sinclair
#43. I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
Alexander McQueen
#44. We need a new religion, a global religion, based on one simple principle: live and let live.
Marty Rubin
#45. Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit [perhaps this too will be a pleasure to look back on one day].
Maggie Stiefvater
#46. With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
Richard Branson
#47. Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
Gustav Mahler
#48. I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.
Elvis Presley
#49. Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing - - that a great enlightenment is coming.
Dan Brown
#51. Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
Ernest Hemingway,
#52. He lifted up on one elbow and looked down at her. What she wouldn't give to see what he saw, to know what made him look at her that way.
Sarah Addison Allen
#53. You didn't go to a family outing. You went on one.
Margaret Epp
#54. I'm happy to start on one topic and end on another one entirely, as long as it's funny.
Dave Barry
#55. I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.
Lisa Loeb
#56. On one occasion, in the middle of an intimate talk, Mao leaned over and whispered in the Dalai Lama's ear, "I understand you very well, but of course religion is poison.
John Avedon
#57. In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.
Mary Russell Mitford
#58. It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and create -- or at least, to have warranted the dropping of a question on one's plate.
Amor Towles
#59. Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable.
John Muir
#60. You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
David Talbot
#61. It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.
Sun Tzu
#62. Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.
Kathleen Raine
#63. There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.
Matt Mullenweg
#64. There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#65. Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another.
Nick Hanauer
#66. A person's toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one's neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa.
Dale Carnegie
#67. We humans need one another. We live in a big house with many rooms. Right now our home is on fire. If you're going to try to put out the fire, you've got to first agree on one fundamental point--everyone in the house is worth saving.
Ivory Simone
#68. How have a hundred men who wish for a master the right to vote on behalf of ten who do not? The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least. 6.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#69. I've kind of codified certain things for myself, rhythmic patterns and mechanical ways of using the bow to create layers of rhythm. What I'm trying to do is to create a complete piece of music on one instrument.
Bruce Molsky
#70. Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#72. In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.
Jack Welpott
#73. How does a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's magical. There must be some sesame seed glue out there. Either that or they're adhesive on one side. Peel off the backing, place it on the bun.
Mitch Hedberg
#74. That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#75. I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.
Jodi Picoult
#76. The discipline is based on one grisly fact: a corpse makes a good lunch.
Val McDermid
#77. I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
Marina Abramovic
#78. And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
Dave Eggers
#79. When your dream dies, create another dream; don't waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don't stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion.
Graham Greene
#81. I think the one-on-one gigs connecting with the fans - is the most important thing. That will help build your fan base. They'll talk about you, and word spreads. Those things are just as important as knowing how to play an E chord.
Joan Jett
#82. Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.
Brian Tracy
#83. There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Oscar Wilde
#84. Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.
Curtis Jackson
#85. I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
Grace Slick
#86. I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.
Stephen King
#87. Today I, tomorrow you. But this need of help does not mean that the one is helpless, the other powerful. Helplesness is a transitory condition; the ability to stand and walk on one's own feet is the permanent and common one
Erich Fromm
#88. Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.
Stephen Spender
#89. Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.
Kelly Link
#90. In cycling, you can put all your money on one horse.
Stephen Roche
#91. I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.
Bocafloja
#92. I could live a week on one good compliment.
Bill Vaughan
#93. An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it.
Martin Clunes
#94. Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.
Javier Bardem
#95. I am so grateful for One Day At A Time, even though for years and years and years people would go, "Oh, you were on One Day At A Time." I [am on the show] for about seven months and then this haunts me for the rest of my life. No, I had no regrets.
Richard Masur
#96. I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.
T.C. Boyle
#97. all relations of power rest on one thing, a contract between the leader and the followers such that the followers believe it is in their interest to follow the leader. No man can compel another - except at knifepoint - to do what he does not want to do."17
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#98. The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores.
Jeremy Corbyn
#99. He pivoted on one buttock and broke wind. Dukhi leaned back to allow it free passage, wondering what penalty might adhere to the offence of interfering with the waft of brahminical flatus.
Rohinton Mistry
#100. You should not give your heart to someone who hasn't asked for it. You never know who may fall in love with you, or who you may come to love, if you are sensible and stop being so focused on one man.
Melanie Dickerson
